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> a front etc. can die and it will be closed down

And let's consider the trends in the industry. There's the trend 
towards rich communication. Today, we think of the screen as one way 
to share information and the phone as another way. Well, those will 
be brought together, so when you call someone up, your screen and 
their screen will be connected and you'll have all your Office tools 
to edit documents together, to exchange information. A lot of that 
information will be in this new XML format, the idea that all the 
paperwork of the business goes away, not just for simple orders but 
for all the things that go on, the changes that take place, the 
customer service things, reviewing what the bill looks like; all of 
those exchanges that take knowledge workers' time, getting those to 
be done in a digital fashion relies on XML.

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