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- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'
- When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...
- Tags: w3c, opendocument format, ibm corp., opendocument foundation, odf, matusow, opendocument format (odf), emerging technologies, dan farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Ubuntu Chief: Microsoft Invests Big $ On OpenXML Standards Effort
- Ubuntu Chief: Microsoft Invests Big $ On OpenXML Standards EffortMessage has been deleted.Message has been deleted.Message has been deleted.Message has been deleted.That idiot's a billionaire....... whereas you... well...'nuff said.Wasting his time with a few million peopleThe idiot hardly wasted his time. He wrote a brief blog post, and a bunch...
- Tags: opendocument format (odf), quality, ubuntu, odf, microsoft corp., opendocument format
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- Microsoft's 4th of July Trans-Atlantic assault on document standards
- On what is normally a slow period for news, Microsoft launched a concerted campaign to displace ODF and PDF as document access and retention standards on both sides of the Atlantic. Microsoft has proposed and lobbied for OOXML as an alternative to ODF and XPS as an alternative to Adobe's...
- Tags: standards, ooxml, odf, microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- ODF, OOXML...and now UOF?
- UOF, or Uniform Office Format, is a document format created by the Chinese government that has catapulted to prominence, at least in China, due to its use by government and a Chinese population making greater use of computing technology. Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman, has called for the merging of...
- Tags: office 2007, office, odf
- Blog posts 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
- Thoughts on standards
- A lot of people are of the opinion that there should be only one standard for any particular problem domain. You hear that most often from people in the ODF camp (though that might be somewhat self-serving), but you even hear it to a certain extent from fans of HTML...
- Tags: odf, general, economic policy
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- ODF vs. OOXML - the way I see it
- In a blog post on Friday, I asked in the title whether ODF has sufficient detail after discovering a post by Miguel de Icazas on the subject of ODF vs. OOXML. The point from that post I keyed on was that 6,000 pages isnt a problem so long as those...
- Tags: general, it management, odf, office, office 2007, open source, pc forum, software infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Does ODF lack sufficient detail?
- I missed this blog post by Mary Jo Foley on the debates surrounding ratification of OOXML by ISO. Unlike printed newspapers, however, which get thrown away shortly after the day for which they were printed has passed, online articles stick around forever. Heck, every article Ive ever written for ZDNet...
- Tags: general, odf, office, office 2007, open source, pc forum, software infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Stop bashing the Novell / Microsoft agreement
- Fans of the GPL are still acting like Microsoft ran over the family pet in its recent agreement with Novell. This example from Groklaw, to which Miguel de Icaza responded, is a good example. In it, the author explains the effects, as he or she sees it, of the agreement:...
- Tags: patent, odf, pc forum, software infrastructure, it management, open source, general
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- In Focus: ODF
- See ZDNet's focus on ODF for the latest news and perspectives from around the blogosphere.
- Tags: odf
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Sun: ODF needed to prevent 'corporate Alzheimer's'
- Sun: ODF needed to prevent 'corporate Alzheimer's'But, will there be aSun Blade available to pull the source, . . hardware may have gone obsolete, . . but none the less, yes a standard would be nice to decide on. Of course, you can't beat a book, . . ....
- Tags: opendocument format (odf), word processors, grid, odf, microsoft corp., sun microsystems inc., opendocument format, alzheimer's disease
- Discussion threads 2005-12-14
Additional Resources
- So what do I do first?
- So what do I do first?RE: So what do I do first?You are pretty much doing the first thing!List everything you think you need to do. Make tentative priorities.Then add whatever everyone else thinks is on your todo list and make sure it's what should be there. Failing to manage...
- Tags: platform application, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUs
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUsIt's not surprising.The increased cost of the premium Office doesn't provide much that corporations need. Also, as linked, Vista Home Basic is not viable either, so they must, if they go Vista, get the premium product.I do think a clarification is needed. [B]He...
- Tags: elop, microsoft office, microsoft office 2007
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...
- Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), operating systems, mozilla firefox, forrester research inc., microsoft windows vista, apple mac os x, mendel, apple inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?OT but relevant: The heavy tread of IT.Quoting from the stern warnings about SharePoint from another Comment:“As many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people both inside and outside of IT use to create intranets,...
- Tags: collaboration, groupware, strategy, enterprise software, microsoft sharepoint, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Microsoft's online plan: Spend, spend, spend
- Microsoft's online plan: Spend, spend, spendMS understands that the days of their two cash cows are numbered.They understand that we are moving online and the only thing they can do online right now is lose more money.So, not unexpected that they are getting more desperate and throwing more money at...
- Tags: search, mergers & acquisitions, microsoft search service, microsoft corp., online plan
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- 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
- Openoffice vs Microsoft Office
- Openoffice vs Microsoft OfficeOO Reliable for Critical Data?Hi Paul,both at my company and at home we are using both MS Office and OO. In particular at home I consciously decided to primarily use OO since I don't have to worry about any licensing issues.And in order to be able to...
- Tags: ooa/ood/oop, microsoft office, object-oriented, microsoft corp., openoffice
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- New proof: Office 14 slated for 2009
- New proof: Office 14 slated for 2009Not a factor in deployment plansMost of my customers are still on XP and Office2003. It will take more than lipstick and sharepoint to get them to move, even with new hardware to replace the old. They don't see the value proposition for anyone...
- Tags: groupware, databases, word processors, microsoft office, microsoft outlook, office 2009, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- A hard lesson in Internet values, and the Internet's value
- A hard lesson in Internet values, and the Internet's valueThe answer is not simple and depends on multiple variables ...If we take all of the information available to us on the internet, and use it wisely (look at multiple resonses to our query, check out validity of those responses,...
- Tags: wiki, internet, wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
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