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Microsoft offers view into ODF 1.1, Open XML implementations for Office 2007 SP2

Microsoft seems to be in the spirit of giving this holiday season. On Tuesday, the company released details about its implementation of Open Document Format 1.1 -- and Open XML -- for its forthcoming Office 2007 Service Pack 2, due early next year. More...

Tags: Developer, Microsoft Office 2007, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, ODF 1.1 Note, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-12-17

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Corel Home Office

Thanks to an interface design that mirrors Microsoft Office 2007, Corel Home Office is familiar, attractive, and easy to navigate. A few color customizations let you personalize the software, but the accessible, responsive, and intuitive features and tools are what will satisfy users more. Lighter in features and modest...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Office, PRODUCTIVITY, Corel Corp., Microsoft Office 2007

Product reviews 2009-06-17

More on Sun vs. IBM

More on Sun vs. IBMRip Sun's head off and suck it's guts out!If this goes ahead It will be interesting to see what IBM retains. Adding SPARC to its x86/64 & POWER line up is not really viable. I was sorry when HP axed Alpha for sucky Itanic. Thanks Carly!...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Sales force management, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

News to know: March Madness, Chrome beta, Sony-Google, Android

Larry Dignan: March Madness meets IT: We're guinea pigs Matthew Miller: Follow all the March Madness action on your mobile phone Garett Rogers: Google releases new beta version of Chrome Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Google Chrome 2.0 Beta - Fast. Fast! FAST!!! ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Beta, Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Open Source

Blog posts 2009-03-20

Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yes

Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yesGetting excited about a browser or an OS???? Why?Those should be just mature very reliable tools. The excitment should be in the things they allow you to do without getting in your way. I bet that at one time you were...

Tags: Web browsers, open source, Ubuntu, Mozilla Firefox, open-source developer, punk, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

NetApplications Aug 08 data - Big gains for Firefox and iPhone

NetApplications Aug 08 data - Big gains for Firefox and iPhoneGreat to see Safari, Firefox gaining. That will mean it is more likely thatthe Internet will stay mostly free and open.Both FF and iPhone are keeping up with trendsIt is not surprising at all both of these 'product' are gaining....

Tags: Web browsers, INTERNET, Quality, Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, NetApplications Aug 08, standards, Apple Safari, Web browser, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000

Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000termsThe second part of the terms are likely because some universities give their students lifetime access to their .edu email address. As long as they have graduated.Microsoft is going to find it very hard to keep Office Suite prices northof 50 bucks. Enterprises are not...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, allway, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days

Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these daysOn the outside looking inIt's more like MS is on the outside looking in.Hyper-V is a proprietary lock-in solution. Xen, Citrix XenSource, SUN xVM, VMware all let IT run bare-metal Windows on Linux.It's a whole new ballgame."I am merely...

Tags: OpenOffice, OPEN SOURCE, Strategy, Hyper-V, information technology, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

It's official: OOXML is a standard

It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

The company people want Microsoft to be

The recent announcements regarding Microsoft's plans to include native support for ODF and PDF as part of Office 2007 SP2 was certainly unexpected. They had just managed to get OXML ratified by ISO, a move that was clearly aimed to counter a format that had benefited from its decision to...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, IM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Instant Messaging, Game Players, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-23

News to know: Windows 7; Google's Safe browsing; Perlow's spine

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today? Dancho Danchev: Google introducing Safe Browsing diagnostic to help owners of compromised sites Nate McFeters: More Snake Oil: LifeLock spokesperson's stolen id leads to law suits Jason...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Twitter, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-23

ISO calls for end to Open XML 'personal attacks'

ISO calls for end to Open XML 'personal attacks'Or else ... ?[i]All members of the SC 34 committee will have to be given access to the final text of the OOXML standard by May 1 at the latest, the meeting also resolved.[/i]Considering that ISO directives require that that final text...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, ISO, OOXML, attack, personal attack

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win

Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML winLong live the Microsoft Zimbabwe standardIn recognition of ISO adoption of IS 29500 it will hence forth be formally known ans the Zimbabwe stand.Microsoft vote riggers sorry I mean keen standards followers were quoted as saying "we learnt all about ballot...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Sanity, Microsoft Corp., OOXML

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the vote

While ISO isn't set to announce the official voting tally until tomorrow, the OpenDoc Society has posted to a mailing list what it claims are the final results indicating that Microsoft will be granted ISO approval for its Office Open XML OOXML document format. According to the...

Tags: ISO, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Microsoft releases updated Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ramps up document interop efforts as ISO mulls OpenXML

Microsoft releases updated Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ramps up document interop efforts as ISO mulls OpenXMLHow stupidCan people get? "We'll talk about the price later, just buy our crap now. Trust us! Have we ever lied?"This is a 6-month solutionThis Microsoft-Novell software OdfConverter will be mostly obsolete in 6 months when...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office-OpenOffice XML, Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ISO

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice

Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOfficeHave BothI have both and the short comings are slim but there are a few items that stand out for me. In iWorks there is not a way to use an external database like Filemaker--a user is limited to importing fields only from...

Tags: Apple iWork, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, NeoOffice

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

OOXML+vs.+ODF%3A+What%27s+happening+this+week

OOXML+vs.+ODF%3A+What%27s+happening+this+weekYour headline says much. ODF vs OOXMLAnd as usual the "press" Mary Jo would like others to see it that way when in fact it is not. Folks, its just another standard that offers users CHOICE in what they use. Nothing more, nothing less.The only reason the...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), No_Ax, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, Mary Jo

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Report fuels OpenOffice vs. OOXML debate

Report fuels OpenOffice vs. OOXML debateThe funniest quote from the Burton report:ODF is primarily focused on content and presentation domains, and it is far less useful for scenarios requiring advanced structure and behavior capabilities."That just make me laugh!! Can they give one scenario or example??? What exactly are "advanced" structure...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), OpenDocument Format, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-01-17

Intense interest in Microsoft Office standard

Intense interest in Microsoft Office standardHigher up the tree[i]The underlying question remains this. Is standards-setting a judicial or a political process? Even if it is a judicial process, should such a process ignore politics, or be informed by it?[/i]I beg to differ. The underlying question is, "what is the...

Tags: Quality, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, standards, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, Microsoft Office, Standards Bodies

Discussion threads 2007-12-14

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