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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

Buffalo Technology moves closer to returning to U.S. Wi-Fi router market

Wireless watchers may have noticed that Buffalo Technology disappeared from the router game some time back, due to a successful suit brought against it by an Australian company. But Buffalo may be getting back in the market, due to a new court decision that stayed the injunction against it selling...

Tags: Buffalo, Buffalo Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Games, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Microsoft hires former Yahoo exec to run online services

Microsoft has hired former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its online services business. Lu will start on January 5 and report directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, according to a CNET report. The company also announced that Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of Aquantive and a...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Former Yahoo exec to head Microsoft Online Services; Former aQuantive chief quits

Microsoft's search for a leader for its beleaguered Online Systems business is over and at least one of its top execs seemingly is none too happy with the results. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Exec, Lu, Research & Development, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-12-04

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Microsoft Big Brains: Dave Campbell

The Microsoft "Big Brains" series, via which I am profiling Microsoft's roughly two dozen Technical Fellows, continues. This week's fellow is Dave Campbell, the head of strategy and architecture for SQL Services. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Team, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Databases, Storage, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Vintage gadgets on display in NYC

From the Blickensderfer Portable Typewriter to the Apple Tablet Prototype and every Dyson G-Force Vacuum and Polaroid Land Camera in between, the temporary Gizmodo gallery installation at Reed Annex in New York was the place to see vintage gadget milestones alongside the newest technology of today. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: product photos, Gizmodo, gallery, vintage, gadgets, New York, event photos, Apple, Andrew Nusca

Image galleries 2008-12-04

WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business

The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...

Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Vintage gadgets on display in NYC

From the Blickensderfer Portable Typewriter to the Apple Tablet Prototype and every Dyson G-Force Vacuum and Polaroid Land Camera in between, the temporary Gizmodo gallery installation at the Reed Annex in New York was the place to see vintage gadget milestones alongside the newest technology of today. I took...

Tags: Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04