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Improved ODF support for Office, courtesy of Sun

EWeek reported last week on Sun's new ODF plugin for Microsoft Office. While OpenOffice generally does a passable job of converting between Office and ODF files, more intricate presentations or heavily-formatted documents may be more susceptible to losses. While Microsoft has its own tool for converting files, the...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Dual-booting Windows and Linux, courtesy of AKH

I've had a few requests for instructions on dual-booting Windows and Linux and will hopefully put together some SUSE-specific instructions in the not-so-distant future. However, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wrote a great Ubuntu-specific post explaining how it's done. Windows Vista doesn't always do so well with the partitioner software built...

Tags: Education Technology, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Making "hamburger of Microsoft's cash cow"

Ars technica featured an article last week (Microsoft funds questionable study attacking open source in education") focusing on a European study of user satisfaction with, and adoption of open source software versus Microsoft products in educational systems. Not surprisingly, the Microsoft-funded study concluded that Microsoft products were not only...

Tags: Open Source, Microsoft, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Does Microsoft have a future in educational technology?

The short answer to that question is, of course - any company with that much cash, influence, and market share must have a place just about everywhere, ed tech included. A less pat answer is worthy of some discussion, though. I use a variety of platforms: Linux on...

Tags: Open Source, Microsoft, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Science and Nature both reject MS Office 2007 file format

While I am a big fan of Office 2007 and it has been received very well by our students, it is not being received so well by others because of inherent incompatibilities.  Given the new XML-based file formats used in the latest incarnation of Microsoft's Office suite, even our students...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-03

Why do so many seem to hate Microsoft?

Chris Dawson's Why do I only get flamed when I support Microsoft? asks a really good question.  There are no simple answers to this question, which is truly multi-faceted but one thing is certain: a lot of the animosity directed toward Microsoft has nothing to do with Microsoft or their business practices. I think the lack...

Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Why do I only get flamed when I support Microsoft?

A recent post in Information Week asked a similar question: Why Doesn't Microsoft Have a Cult Religion? It appeared on Digg and Ars with an even catchier tagline: "A good question: Where ARE the Microsoft fanboys?" A whole lot of us use it, many even with a great...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Emerging tech from Microsoft could reduce costs in classrooms

Discovery News is reporting on new technology being developed by Microsoft Research India that would allow two users to easily share a single desktop. The solution is completely software based and requires only the purchase of an additional USB keyboard and mouse. Even the existing monitor can be...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-09

OLPC founder finally faces a 'grim reality'

OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain’t so! was the headline and so far reader reaction is mixed. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft’s continued dominance. From the beginning, the One Laptop per Child foundation, the brainchild of MITs Nicholas Negroponte, has...

Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, K-12, Microsoft, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-04-30

From the too-good-to-be-altruistic department

Sure, the digital divide still exists here in the states. It took nearly an act of congress to get my high school moved into the 21st century and were busily updating our curriculum to make use of the new technology. However, in reality, about 3 quarters of US...

Tags: Education Technology, Classroom Tech, Microsoft, DigitalDivide

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Russians prosecuting teacher who installed pirated Windows

In a Goliath vs. David story, Microsoft is suing a Russian village school teacher for software piracy, reports the Associated Press. The intellectual property rights test case brought by Microsoft against Alexander Ponosov, a village school principal in the Ural Mountain region of Perm, about 620 miles east...

Tags: Education Technology, International

Blog posts 2007-02-14

Georgia Tech, Microsoft bring tabletop robots to CS program

One day, in the not too distant future, students may be conducting experiments with robots for lab partners. To that end, Georgia Tech and other universities have teamed up with Microsofts Institute for Personal Robots in Education IPRE to provide tabletop robots, hoping to encourge and promote computer science programs...

Tags: Computer science, Education Technology, Georgia Tech, Higher Ed, robot, Robotics

Blog posts 2007-01-31

Additional Resources

Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole story

RE: Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole storyMost corporate PCs were not updated to Vista, because Vista didn't add any additional values; required more powerful hardware and had a very bad name from the start.Most companies will also not upgrade...

Tags: Operating systems, Software Developement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, corporate PC, PC, Win7, whole story, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Could Jobs' departure = good news for education?

Could Jobs' departure = good news for education?Affordable?There seems to be a re-definition of affordable all the time. When technology and PCs first showed up at education's doorstep, $2000 for a machine was acceptable. Then the continued push for lower and lower priced machines came and continues.There is a difference...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, ROI/TCO, Apple Inc., education, netbook, job

Discussion threads 2009-01-15

Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analytics

Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analyticsNBC Olympics and TVTonic[b]Wavexpress to Provide Internet Video Download Service for NBC's Coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games[/b]Free Service to Allow Media Center Users the Ability to Download Content During NBC's Coverage of the Beijing Olympics, August 8-24, 2008http://www.tvtonic.com/news/?p=133NEW YORK - June 23,...

Tags: analytics, Microsoft Corp., NBC Olympic, NBC Universal Inc., video, Wavexpress, wtf

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?

The message out of Computex this week is loud and clear: The Netbooks are coming. Intel is touting its Atom processor. Acer is on the board with its Aspire one. Microsoft is adapting Windows to the Netbook market. Nvidia says Netbooks will be graphics intensive. The big question: Are buyers...

Tags: Computex, Device, Acer Inc., Smartphone, Laptop Computer, Netbooks, Computing Device, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-03

In search of: Startups that could upend Google and Microsoft

Earlier this week at one of Mary Jo Foley's talk before the New York Software Industry Association one of the folks in the audience posed a great question. The gist: The Google vs. Microsoft online advertising war resembles Sears vs. Montgomery Ward years ago. The punch line: While Sears and...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., BzzAgent, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Remembering Apple's fizzled buyout

Looking at Microsoft's hostile takeover move for Yahoo, brings back memories of the time when Apple management sought its own buyout. But the corporate "saviors" had cold feet. In the summer and fall of 1995, Apple executives were in a state of siege: sales of new Mac...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., Desktops, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Finance, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-02-04

ZDNet 2007: What the tag cloud tells us

Our engineering team put ZDNet blogs through a cloud tag blender to render a weighted list of top topics for 2008. In an age when the consumer and enterprise worlds are colliding but no exploding, Google, iPhone, Apple and Microsoft captured the big buzz of the year in our blogs....

Tags: Web, Network, Enterprise Software, Blog, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Blogging, Virtualization, Social Networking, Internet, Marketing, Hardware, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-18

Microsoft walks the Vista-projection tightrope

Microsoft walks the Vista-projection tightropeNice but short analysisYou never mentioned that many Win XP users are still wondering why they might want or need to upgrade. Also, while large corporate customers may upgrade up to one third of their desktop base every yrear, they rarely include a new OS until...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Now IT, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2006-12-08