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Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?

Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?They are waiting for the right time to pounce. Right now, they want to slowSOA as much as possible, to keep the money rolling in for the twin cash cows, but, there will come a time...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Microsoft Corp., XML, Microsoft Office, OOo, Web-Stack, SOA, MSOffice-OOXML, OOo team

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

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News to know: Adobe; Windows 7; Sun; SOA; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-like Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study Michael...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Antivirus, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Home Entertainment, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Linux, Web Services, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04

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

I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...

Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility

Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibilityI really do not know anybody using OOXML. Because of the problems, almosteverybody using the new version of MS Office has switched it to always save in .doc format. I got some .docx attachments at first, but, that has pretty much stopped, as people realize that there...

Tags: Office Open XML, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility

Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed through a simple Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced. Microsoft on Wednesday announced several incremental enhancements to the compatibility of its Office Open XML document...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OOXML, standards, ISO, OpenDocument, Standard, OpenOffice, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-03

Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?

Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?Can answer these ...[i]Know how to access Windows shares on the network[/i]Well that's pretty easy in Nautilus using smb:// , but a simple link with an icon should suffice.[i]Have a rudimentary understanding of the file system to ensure that...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Printers, desktop Linux, KDE, GNOME, user interface, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, desktop, printer, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-11-30

How open should your open source business strategy be

How open should your open source business strategy beCreate your own network effect ...... and you can grow and shrink as necessary.There's a huge market out there of people who just want their computer to f***ing work.If you're prepared to stick a second hard drive in peoples machines and dual...

Tags: open-source business strategy, open source, strategy

Discussion threads 2008-11-28

Sun adds Apple native support to StarOffice 9

Sun on Monday announced that StarOffice 9 was available with native Mac OS X support. The company's latest StarOffice statement gets a revamp throughout and makes it easier to edit PDF files, blog and publish wikis. It also supports Open Document Format, Microsoft Office--legacy and OOXML files--and...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., StarOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Windows 7 - user interface is king

Windows 7 - user interface is kingMaybe you should have used it a little more...You don't have to use XAML at all to build WPF apps. Every control, UI element etc is a .Net class, and if you like building up your object hierarchies with imperative code, then you can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, XAML, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, markup, XML, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

Code execution flaws haunt OpenOffice

Code execution flaws haunt OpenOfficeCode execution flaws haunt OpenOfficeLOL!! Let the bug hunt begin. This will be one of many bugs found in OpenOffice. Remember when v3.0 was released and all the fanboys were telling us to replace our current solutions with this new version because it works...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, OpenOffice 3.0, OpenOffice, Code execution flaw, Code Execution, flaw, OO.org v3.0

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

Microsoft to 'webify' Office (sort of)

Microsoft to 'webify' Office sort ofHow is this different from expected?Quoting the comment:Microsoft is finally doing what many have been clamoring for — making Web-based versions of its Office apps available — but in a different way than expected.[End quote]Did anyone expect an attempt to make Office on the desktop...

Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Silverlight

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

Is Ubuntu getting bloated and slow?

Is Ubuntu getting bloated and slow?We already have one Linux users answer:http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10532-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=53520&messageID=1012181&start=0I had the same problem with Fedora......which is why I abandoned it on the family PC in favor of Gentoo. I suspect that part of the problem is the temptation to optimize for newer equipment and the old...

Tags: OpenOffice, Linux, Notebooks, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Openoffice 3.0 vs MS Office

Openoffice 3.0 vs MS Officewow!u had a post just to say that!!You're rightThe ribbon interface in Office 07 is leaps and bounds ahead of the dated looking OO interface and it doesn't really have all the features of Office 07. So office 07 wins hands down.Plus OO is the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Linux, OpenOffice 3.0

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

Opening Access to Office Information With OOXML

As the leading ratings expert in a media market, this company's production consisted of sorting and processing large amounts of data to create Microsoft Power Point presentations of charts and tables that clients used to sell advertising. The company wanted to find a way to manipulate an exponential increase in...

Tags: PSC Group, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, Office Open XML, Marketing Research, Marketing

Case studies 2008-10-20

Microsoft bad cop is up against the wall

Last time they played this game they were pushing OOXML as an ISO standard. Before that they were promising to bury open source in patent suits. Now they're trying to sneak semi-proprietary code on their own site. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Cop, Wall, Lex Luthor, Godzilla, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-05

IBM move reopens Open Office XML debate

IBM move reopens Open Office XML debateWhich side attacked?I have the impression that requiring Microsoft to go through the standards process was an attempt to make it more difficult to sell Office. The strategy: governments and perhaps other organizations could mandate that formats used for saving documents had...

Tags: Vertical industries, XML, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., government, Microsoft Office, Open Office XML debate, OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets

VMware vs Microsoft: Place your betsDoes History Not Repeat ItselfOver and over again, we have seen Microsoft saturate markets, working from the bottom rungs of those who can't afford, and raising the needed capital to choke those who are to superior for their own good. VMWare is no exception...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Blogging, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Open source as a government mandate

Open source as a government mandateGovernment mandateWe're always better off when government tells us what to do. Removing choice eliminates the mistakes we would make and provides everyone the wisdom far greater than our own of those who have chosen to work for the government.In fact, many of us...

Tags: Vertical industries, open source, government mandate, open standard

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...

Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05