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- Better living without MS Office
- Better living without MS OfficeAll beside the pointNone of the above matters, because Microsoft is well on its way to making MSOffice2K7 file formats (ECMA-376) a [i]de jure[/i] standard required for all interactions with government and by extension just about anything else (quite possibly including filing your taxes.)Since ECMA-376 is...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., OOXML, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-10
- Microsoft playing three card monte with XML conversion
- Gary Edwards of the Open Document Foundation, a leading member of its technical committee, says Microsoft is playing proprietary games aimed at controlling XML file formats and preventing the Open Document Format from gaining a foothold. (Image from Centre-Linux.Org in France.)In a highly informative post to his Open Stack blog...
- Tags: Applications, General, Government, Implementations, Infrastructure, Microsoft, Network Standards/Protocols, Standards, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Massachusetts sticking with 'open' documents
- Massachusetts sticking with 'open' documentsWhich "Open" or "Standards based"?"to adopt standards-based products for storing documents starting in January 2007."Which is it, "Open" or "standards based"?Do I or the maker of the tools I use, have to agree to a contract in order to access & edit that document?That's what it...
- Tags: XML, Quality, Microsoft XML, American Chef, recipe, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
- Microsoft releases FAQ on Ecma submission
- Microsoft releases FAQ on Ecma submissionRegrettable word choiceI hope that those who read this article will indeed link through to my blog post, which clearly in no way "lampoons" the Microsoft Q&A. Instead, it tries to evaluat the Q&A objectively, giving credit where credit is due, and offering a...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft OpenXML, ECMA
- Discussion threads 2005-12-13
- IBM follows Sun's lead with open letter to Massachusetts gov't
- IBM follows Sun's lead with open letter to Massachusetts gov'tSwing votersYou're missing the votes that [b]really[/b] count in Massachusetts: SAIC, CA, etc. -- the companies that will be developing the enterprise infrastructure implementing the ETRM.Most of them aren't even known by name to most New England techies. If you...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Desktops, desktop software, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Google Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-29
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