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A quick note on Ubuntu for netbooks

Few details are available yet, but Mark Shuttleworth revealed in an interview with the Guardian that a version of Ubuntu customized for the netbook market would be released in early June. Unfortunately, details are scarce; here's the line from the interview: [The Guardian]: Will you be...

Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Jason Matusow, Operating System, South Africa, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Microsoft: "It was simply an error"

In reaction to this weekends revelation that Microsoft filed a patent in October 2005 for an invention they knew had prior art, the software giant has filed an "express abandonment of the application" with the US Patent and Trademark Office USPTO according to Jason Matusow, Sr. Director of IP and...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Jason Matusow, Michael Kölling

Blog posts 2007-01-30

The meat of the Microsoft-Novell deal is in the patents

The most meaty part of the November 2 cooperative-technology deal between Microsoft and Novell is also the hardest to understand: The patent portion. Luckily, Jason Matusow, Microsoft's Director of Corporate Standards, breaks it all down in his posting today. The highlights: * Novell and Microsoft are providing covenants to each...

Tags: agreement, Novell Inc., Jason Matusow

Blog posts 2006-11-02

Sun's Bray to Microsoft's Matusow: "In your dreams"

If you've spent any time with Sun's director of Web technologies Tim Bray (either in person or virtually, with his blog), then you'd probably get the same impression that I have of Bray. Smart. Centered. Very zen. Doesn't mind a good debate, but sticks to the technical merits....

Tags: Microsoft Office, Jason Matusow, OpenDocument Format

Blog posts 2006-05-08

Apple makes a stronger proprietary argument

Today I matched the latest arguments on the blog of Microsoft's Jason Matusow against concerns expressed in the latest Gartner survey on open source, reported by ZDNet DataPoint.They match up pretty well.Fragmentation caused by multiple distributions?? Large IT shops want to decrease complexity, manage risk, and reduce cost, says Matusow....

Tags: Jason Matusow, Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2005-04-14

Microsoft's open source chief Matusow unplugged: A movement to the middle

Last week, I had the opportunity to interview Jason Matusow. Matusow is Microsoft's chief strategist on the open source front. Since the interview, which took place on March 14, I've been sitting on the audio file as well as my notes feeling badly that it's been taking...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Jason Matusow, Kim Polese, open source

Blog posts 2005-03-24

Microsoft s Jason Matusow blogs on open source policy

Microsoft s Jason Matusow blogs on open source policyHey, Matusow...I am not interested in any Microsoft 'open source' product, unless it is something that can actually be used to help businesses and consumers. How about opening up Windows 95?

Tags: Blogging, Jason Matusow, open source policy, open source, Microsoft Corp., blog

Discussion threads 2005-03-13

Microsoft's Jason Matusow blogs on open source policy

When corporate officers blog, a type of Kabuki is taking place. What you're reading is advocacy, marketing and a bit of PR. What you see may be policy, but the Secretary may also deny any knowledge of the blogger's actions, causing the blog to self-destruct in 15 seconds. You...

Tags: Jason Matusow

Blog posts 2005-03-11

What questions do you have for Microsoft's Shared-Source chief?

On Monday, March 15 2005, I'm scheduled to do an in-person interview with Jason Matusow. Matusow is the director of Microsoft's Shared Source Program and is the company's top thought leader when it comes to Microsoft's go forward strategy on the open source front. The interview with Microsoft open...

Tags: Jason Matusow, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2005-03-09

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OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF

OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODFIf they can't even support it themselveshow the heck do they expect other applications to support it?even M$ can't implement OOXMLwhile some people are cheerleading this bloated and broken standard.I expect to see M$ droping support for OOXML in the next office 'for technical...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OOXML backwards compatibility

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

Microsoft's ODF support looks good ... but on paper only

Microsoft’s pledge to support ODF as a native file format in Office 2007 SP2 is good news for OpenOffice â€" but on paper only. The devil is in the details â€" and Microsoft hasn’t spelled out precisely how or if its ODF 1.1 implementation will support macros...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win

Like it or not, Microsoft’s OOXML â€" now known as IS 29500 -- has received the proper number of votes to become an ISO standard. And the Redmond, Washington company is wasting no time rejoicing the turnaround win. In his blog today, Jason Matusow,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), XML, Iso standards, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Quality, Business Operations, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Super Friday to climax Microsoft Open XML push

Forget Super Tuesday. Consider Super Friday. Super Friday is February 29, the end of the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting which will decide the fate of Open XML as an ISO standard. Opponents say Microsoft has been packing national standards bodies to assure a "yes" vote...

Tags: XML, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Super Friday, Iso standards, Process Improvement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-05

OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'

When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...

Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Will GNOME split give Microsoft Open XML standards win?

Microsoft's efforts to overturn a vote earlier this year denying its Open XML "fast track" standards certification seem to be getting a boost from the GNOME Foundation. GNOME Foundation founder Miguel deIcaza is a Novell employee, and his actions have been closely scrutinized since Microsoft signed its...

Tags: Gnome Foundation, Microsoft Office, GNOME, XML, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-31

ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML

ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXMLIs the vote the most important issue?A splintering of ODF advocates won't affect IBM's attempt to discomfit a rival nor slow those who believe Microsoft villainous. But it does reduce or make less enthusiastic the number of those campaigning against Office and for ODF...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Matusow, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML

Microsoft's battle with backers of the Open Document Format ODF standard could end up going the way that so many contests do: Won by Microsoft as much -- if not more -- because of the ineptitude of its competition than by Redmond's prowess. Just as Netscape and...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Denmark to test Open XML, ODF in year-long evaluation

More on the file format wars: Denmark will run a test of the two competing formats -- Open Document Format and Office Open XML -- over the next year, in which government agencies will be required to use both formats, InfoWorld reports.Denmark is requiring both standards for the test period...

Tags: Standards, Open source, International

Blog posts 2007-07-05

Who speaks for Microsoft on open source?

This is something of an open thread because I am genuinely confused on this important point. (Picture from Torahmitzion.)Does Steve Ballmer speak for Microsoft on open source? Hes the CEO, and he seems to think that open source does not exist, has no right to exist, and can be ground...

Tags: AJAX, Microsoft Corp., open source

Blog posts 2007-03-26

File format wars: Is there more to ODF vs. OOXML than vendor politics?

Standards battles tend to be all about politics and politicking, as the increasingly heated Open Document Format ODF vs. Open Office XML OOXL file-format contest proves. Blogs and lawsuits have become the new battleground. In this corner, we have Bob Sutor, Vice President of Standards and Open Source for...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Office, Office 2007, Linux, OOXML encounter, OpenDocument Format

Blog posts 2007-02-07