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- Microsoft releases XML fix for Mac Office, Open XML converter tool
- Microsoft on Thursday released a pair of updates to fix a problem with Open XL documents: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1 Update and Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter 1.1.1. According to Microsoft's Knowledge Base article of the issue, users...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, XML, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Tool, Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
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- Microsoft Open XML Converter 1.1.3 (Mac)
- Open XML Converter allows you to convert Open XML files that were created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows so that you can open, edit, and save them in earlier versions of Office for Mac. Open XML Converter can convert Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, XML, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Open XML Converter, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-10
- File format blues
- File format bluesTry to educateWhen I receive a *x file, I usually respond with a note to the sender that the file is unreadable, and would he/she please check the program's default format settings and then re-send as .doc, .xls, etc.As others have noted, most of the time the sender...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Word processors, Microsoft Office, File format blue, WordStar, job
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- Microsoft patches 31 Windows, IE, Office security holes
- Microsoft's batch of patches this month is a big one: 10 bulletins covering a total of 31 documented vulnerabilities affecting the Windows OS, the Internet Explorer browser and the Microsoft Office productivity suite (Word, Works and Excel). Five of the 10 bulletins are rated "critical," Microsoft's highest...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Windows Server, Window, Vulnerability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Security, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- In Office SP2, Microsoft manages to reduce interoperability
- In Office SP2, Microsoft manages to reduce interoperabilityYup.File under 'pointless exercise'.What if you created a document format and no one cared?No I think it would be called OOXML. And yes Sleeper Service no one cared about OOXML.Why did you bother to comment then?You fool no one. ODF is a...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, astroturfing, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Office SP2, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues
- Can Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit expect anything but frustration from its installed base of users? The excuses from the development team are wearing very, very thin. The news today was that the group was able to get its first batch of 1,000 bug...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2004, MacTech, Ticktin, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft updates Mac Office 2008, 2004
- Redmond pushes security fixes for users of the older Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, while owners of the recently released Office 2008 receive a large dose of stability fixes more like instability fixes and security patches. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit informed us via the corporate...
- Tags: Security, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., Beta Version, Microsoft Office 2004, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Google: Microsoft's OOXML shouldn't be a standard
- Google: Microsoft's OOXML shouldn't be a standardsurely OOXML should not be standardEver we dont need google to tell it to us. But if google really wanna put a end to MS Make a OS damn'it a nice BSD knockoff like apple is doingThe axis of...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?
- Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...
- Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Office for Mac 2008 delayed until next year
- The next version of Microsoft Office for Mac won't hit in the latter half of 2007, as originally expected, according to Microsoft. The new ship target for Office for Mac 2008 is January 2008.Microsoft officials are attributing the delay to insufficient quality of current test versions of the product. ArsTechnica...
- Tags: Office for Mac, Office, Apple, App Compatibility
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- ODF, OOXML...and now UOF?
- ODF, OOXML...and now UOF?Data representationWell I would say there is a well-founded standard theoretical model for data representation. On the basis of this standard watching Microsoft move from archaic methods where the only way you can get at the data is through the application to the almost as archaic hierarchical...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Few People, KARMA, Steve B, OOXML, Company-A, OpenDocument Format, Company B, UOF
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- Responding to Mr. Allison on ODF
- Jeremy Allison, in a recent article for ZDNet, complains that Microsoft prevents little girls from turning in their homework. Okay, thats not precisely true. After dropping a few anti-Vista dings, he explained the problems he had trying to open Office XML files in OpenOffice, and used that as reason to...
- Tags: General, ODF, Office, Office 2007, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Crushed by the Wheels of Industry
- Crushed by the Wheels of IndustryIG you had any senseAnd were a decent Uncle you would have gotten her MS Office 07 Teacher / Student edition instead if loading her machine with all that junk.Message has been deleted.I thought Novell == wicked?Kinda ironic that he resorted to using a tool...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-14
- Microsoft cranks up its Open XML standardization campaign
- Microsoft cranks up its Open XML standardization campaignThe way to customer choice and interoperability is a single good standard.MS only wants to create confusion and compatibility problems with a second standard, that is way to complex and ambiguous. A good document standard is not rocket science, and there is no...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, MS Only, Open XML, OOXML, MS-OOXML, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Microsoft to release ODF document converter
- Microsoft to release ODF document converterWell said, SpikeyMike.I agree with you that MS should be avoided whenever possible."They are poor stewards of this industry and should be removed from the position of setting standards. They are better followers than leaders."Agreed. They have EARNED that position.Who is M$???Don't find them listed...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2007-02-02
- Microsoft updates timetables for next Office for Mac, XML file-format converters
- Believe it or not, there were more announcements at MacWorld than just Apples iPhone. Microsoft, too, had a bit of news. Microsoft officials announced on January 9 that the next version of Office for the Mac will be dubbed "Office 2008 for Mac," and will ship in the latter...
- Tags: Office, Office 2007, App Compatibility, Office for Mac, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- Mac Office 'alarmists,' lay down your arms
- Mac Office 'alarmists,' lay down your armsOh, puhleeze...Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.Once again, Mac users causing harm[i]For now, we recommend that Mac users advise their friends and colleagues using Office 2007 to save their documents as a "Word/Excel/PowerPoint 97-2003 Document" (.doc, .xls, .ppt) to ensure the...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Mac Office compatibility: When 'no comment' just isn't good enough
- Reports are cropping up all over that users of older versions of Microsofts Office for Mac suite cannot exchange documents created with the new Microsoft Office 2007 suite for Windows, due to file-format incompatibilities. The Mac Business Unit has promised that it will provide converters -- that sound similar...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp., Office, Office 2007, App Compatibility
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- Microsoft bends on OpenDocument
- Microsoft bends on OpenDocumentWhat MS means is...MS Office Open XML MSOOXML is backward compatible with the XML format in MS Office 2003. Which I presume means any translator that can read MSOOXML can also read MS Office 2003 XML.Of course that is proposed as a bonus, but in order...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Linux threat, FUD, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, MSOOXML, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-07-06
- Mass. holding tight to OpenDocument
- Mass. holding tight to OpenDocumentMass. is right, others should followIt makes complete sense to use an ISO document standard for long term document stoarge and archiving. If an Office plug-in is developed that meets the ODF standard then that will be OK as well. What the shills tend to scream...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), game, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-07-05
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