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Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?

Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?Microsoft announcement URL, pleaseThe link provided in the article text merely jumps to another ZDNet news posting that also fails to provide a link to MS content.It is just that everybody stopped using .docx format, since most people cannot read...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft OOXML, Office Open XML, OpenOffice, SDK, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back down

Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back downIt lies with the winner?Microsoft didn't win--it did it's usual thing of lying and cheating to steal a result it couldn't earn. E.g.,http://deepakphatak.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is.htmlNot a standard, yetWith the appeals and the lack of publishing, it's still not a standard.OOXML is largely irrelevant and will "die"ISO...

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

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Microsoft's OOXML gets ISO approval ... maybe

Microsoft's OOXML gets ISO approval ... maybeFraud and corruption is the new International standard.Congratulations Microsoft for absolutely nothing of value, and enjoy the backlash ;-)Interesting language"[i]Microsoft maintains that Office dominates on the desktop worldwide and that OOXML is a de facto standard anyway[/i]"In other words, MS thinks that whatever they...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, German Standard, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., ISO, Microsoft Office, irregularity, Microsoft OOXML

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Google scores a win over Microsoft's OOXML

Google scores a win over Microsoft's OOXMLHows this a win for google?are google and microsoft competing for the standard? Howz this a win for google over microsoft??. Google has a opinion that OOXML is not worthy of standardization and ISO has taken a decision that is in line with this...

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

Discussion threads 2007-09-15

Is Microsoft OOXML the best deal open source can get?

The Microsoft Office formats are in the news again. (Picture from Stephesblog, copyright Hugh MacLeod.)Massachusetts has backed-down and accepted the Microsoft Office OOXML format as a standard while the companies in Microsoft's open source orbit promise they will work together on conversion routines between OOXML and Open Office's ODF.Many in the...

Tags: Strategy, Standards, Microsoft, mass market, marketing, Legal, Government, General, Applications

Blog posts 2007-07-03

Additional Resources

Revisiting the topic of Office versus OpenOffice.Org

re-visit the revisitingif you actually TRIED to use OpenOffice and TRIED to dig in deeper into it's possibilities, you would find zero compatibility issues except for base/access part. and macros, that no one even with the small brain doesn't use.but you didn't. what you did is to buy office 2008...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OpenOffice, Workforce management, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., compatibility issue

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Zoho's Next Big Thing

Moving the Point of AssemblyKudos to Zoho. Their efforts remind me of the early days of the Microsoft Productivity Environment where core MSOffice editors expanded their reach through DDE, OLE, rich copy/paste, data binding, merged content and data, VBA scripting and the infamous recorder, and a developer API that...

Tags: Channel management, Collaboration, Groupware, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., productivity environment

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Microsoft delivers a partial preview of its Office Web Apps

Disabled bits does not a TECHNICAL PREVIEW make.Hmm, technical preview is for... People coders that want to be ready for the released product or as near to it as is possible. Having half the bits functions disabled or not available in a tech preview makes it, ummm, useless.obvioulsy notdont...

Tags: cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., partial preview, technical preview, Web application, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

MSFT appeals judge's block of Word

It is hard to be sympathetic...... to a company that a wilfully infringed the patent in the first place, and b is more than happy to rattle the same software patent sabre at other companies when it's in its own interests to do so.Letting MS off the hook would basically...

Tags: Microsoft Word, I4i, Microsoft Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Word ban threatens industry? Not mine

Case in TexasIs an example of idiotic patent litigation. The case shouldn't even exist.-MChris, you need to get out of your bubble moreIt is very likely that the patent in question is also violated in other office suites that use XML.The issue isn't whether you can smugly say that you...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Juggernaut, Microsoft Corp., XML, I4i, patent, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Microsoft appeals for stay of Word injunction

Microsoft didn't mention this when they should have!Great day for Open Office - i4i said it has looked at OpenOffice and found it doesn?t infringe on its patents. Oh dear. Poor Microsoft. From Groklaw -http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090817235436439"I have a question for Microsoft. Why didn't they tell us about this i4i patent litigation...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Mary Jo-Foley, Groklaw, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, I4i, patent

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Microsoft takes sharper aim at business users with two new Mac Office releases

Does this hurt Win7 for business?If MS makes a great Office Suite product for OSX, doesn't this make the arguement for using Win7 in enterprise less important? It's one less obstacle for businesses to overcome, no? OSX still does not provide the level ofgranular control that many enterprise...

Tags: 64-bit, Desktops, Snow Leopard, OSX, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Apple Macintosh, Intel Corp., hardware

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

'Custom XML' the key to patent suit over Microsoft Word

Well...It's kind of odd/fun/amusing that Microsoft after doing its big OOXML song and dance is being hoist on its own petard by a patent on custom XML.I do wonder if Microsoft in stumping up OOXML did much at all in the way of diligence with regard to patents on custom...

Tags: XML, Microsoft Corp., patent, Custom XML, Custom Inc., Microsoft Word

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Examine the patent that made selling Microsoft Word a crime

counter productiveIsn't XML meant to provide a standard format for storing and transferring data? This lawsuit will just make other companies more cautious about using XML which will basically negate any attempt to make XML a standard. In my opinion, i4i never should have received a patent on...

Tags: KARMA, Microsoft Word, patent, XML, I4i, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Microsoft still pushing a standards tax

You make an assumption that is not true"If a standard includes ?IP restrictions? of any sort, especially royalties no matter how reasonable or necessary you consider them you?re imposing a tax on all users for your invention."Excuse me? Take for example Flash. Do they not license On2's proprietary "IP restricted"...

Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp., tax

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

HTML 5 drops open-source video codec

HTML 5 drops open-source video codec Codec sillinessHas anybody even considered On2's VP6 codec? It practically "runs the web" as far as progressive video playback is concerned. VP6 is, if you don't know already, the primary codec that Flash uses.Video for EverybodyHere is a link to a good...

Tags: Web browsers, VP6, Theora, Bink, codec, Apple Inc., H.264, open-source video codec, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?

Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?Is this any different than Java?There are positive reasons to have someone hold the patent, mainly, that there is only one captain of the ship. I support open source, but the hitorical problem with it and UNIX has been forking. Some propeller head messes with...

Tags: .NET, Programming languages, C#, Stallman C#, Stallman, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

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

Microsoft backs document-format test tool

Microsoft backs document-format test toolGreat ArticleThis is a really positive step for Microsoft.Finally, the Open XML-ODF Translator has been improved.You mean there's actually a chance it might work now? Somehow I doubt it. If Microsoft is "in competition with" ODF then it's in their best interest (as in...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, tool

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Microsoft under fire for ODF glitch in Excel

Microsoft under fire for ODF glitch in ExcelSo let me get this straightMicrosoft is finally following standards and everyone is all pissed off because the standards are incomplete and ambiguous?Wow, talk about damned if you do, damed if you don't.RE: Microsoft under fire for ODF glitch in ExcelAnd if everyone...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, ODF spec, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., ODF glitch, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet

Discussion threads 2009-05-07