Γιώργος Θεοφάνους

(~jortheo)

Files saved in XML will be smaller than Microsoft equivalents and should be easier to recover data from in the event of a crash.

The change to file formats will largely be invisible to end users, said Mr Pryke-Smith. Though when people use the "Save As" option files in the XML format will have an "x" added to the usual suffix. For instance Word documents saved in XML format will be labelled "docx".