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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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Renaissance to deliver 0.16 prototype this week with hybrid toolbar

The Renaissance project plans to release this week another prototype of its next gen OpenOffice GUI that offers a "hybrid" toolbar combining traditional menus and tabbed toolbars, project leaders say. "0.16 should be available early next week," wrote John McCreesh, marketing project lead for OpenOffice.org, in an...

Tags: Prototype, Toolbar, Microsoft Corp., Ribbon, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-08-23

(Photos: Defcon badge inspires hacks)

(Photos: Defcon badge inspires hacks)Glorious GeekeryCan't help but bow before the imagination and skill of these amazing geeks!!!RE: (Photos: Defcon badge inspires hacks)lol what an epic device. What picture does it form if you put them together? A nuke symbol? RE: (Photos: Defcon badge inspires hacks)As a...

Tags: Team management, Hacking, DefCon, team, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Is OpenOffice.org a 'dying horse'?

Is OpenOffice.org a 'dying horse'?Open office is number two officeOOo is distant two behind Microsoft office. Actually I do not know that for sure, but it seems to be true at least in mindshare. Being number two will ensure that Open Office grows, at least among people who seek alternatives...

Tags: Workstations, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, OOo, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenOffice, workstation, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org

Discussion threads 2009-01-12

Do we need two open source office suites?

Do we need two open source office suites?That Made Me Scratch My Head, TooMethinks Dana needs to go back and double-check his sources. And, by the way, StarOffice's roots actually go back much further than that: Star Division's StarWriter was first developed back in the mid-80's for CP/M. ...

Tags: OpenOffice, Linux, Word processors, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, open-source office suite, Symphony, StarOffice, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

The Google Apps Appliance would make Microsoft sweat

The Google Apps Appliance would make Microsoft sweatEveryone winsThanks Garett. In spite of itself, Microsoft is showing signs of becoming the New Microsoft whatever that might mean. Google is not a Microsoft killer, and Microsoft is not a Google killer. Let's say that Microsoft does buy Yahoo....

Tags: SMB/SME, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Apps Appliance, Google Apps

Discussion threads 2008-03-09

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

UPDATED: Quick! We need a calculator! - Excel 2007 bug

I don't usually cover random software bugs on Hardware 2.0 but since a few of you sent me links to this story I thought I'd post it for others. [Updated: Sept 26, 2007 @ 4.30 am - The Excel 2007 team have been busy investigating and coming...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-09-25

openSUSE 10.3 RC1 Debuts

openSUSE 10.3 RC1 DebutsNice...been running the betas and I gotta say that someone at Novell is doing an excellent job! It boots faster runs faster and is much slicker than anything else I have seen yet to date. I will be updating to the RC1 tonight for some more testing....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, KDE, Linux, GNOME, openSUSE, distro

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

OpenOffice 2.3 released

OpenOffice 2.3 releasedOne month....Good news! I hope this new version of Open Office will indeed prove to be less heavy on the system. Most Linux applications are remarkably lean and programmed to be as light on the system as possible, but Open Office has long been the opposite.In a month,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Open Office Org

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

Is Google Apps now a real Microsoft Office competitor?

Is Google Apps now a real Microsoft Office competitor?How to justify the investment.Google has decided to use (squander?) substantial resources on these applications. Perhaps the decision to do so was based on the effects on morale or a nouveau riche "I can afford it, I'll do it." exuberance.But now...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., real Microsoft Office competitor, IBM Corp., Google Apps

Discussion threads 2007-09-10

Flaw found in Office 2007

Flaw found in Office 2007Flaw found in Office 2007What it comes down to is that there is almost no threat at all. A security research company found the flaw, told Microsoft and bypassed releasing the details to the public. Hackers don't know how to exploit it. Most...

Tags: SECURITY, OpenOffice, OOo, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, flaw, Microsoft Office 2007

Discussion threads 2007-02-23

Should Mozilla take over Open Office?

Should Mozilla take over Open Office?Weather forecast[i]So let me offer a modest proposal. Mozilla should take over Open Office. What do you think?[/i]I think we'll be shipping mittens and parkas to the infernal regions before Sun lets go.Keep in mind that one of the reasons for the low rate of...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, FF2, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-24

Office 2007's improved user interface

Office 2007's improved user interfaceQuestionOkay John, ONE line of that whole piece confuses me. I liked the ski/snowboard analogy, understand that once you're used to it, the new GUI is "a good thing", and all that ... but where on EARTH did the "complex command line" comment come from??I...

Tags: Word processors, Good Design, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office 2007

Discussion threads 2006-10-04

Portable version of OpenOffice.org unveiled

Portable version of OpenOffice.org unveiledHas a winge Gary Barnett"...according to Gary Barnett, a research director at analyst firm Ovum."Big deal. Such a version will be useful to many, well done OOo team.ZDNet open source reporting is hitting new lows:-(256MB - 144MB = how many documentsquite a few. surely enough...

Tags: Notebooks, OpenOffice, Gary Barnett, laptop computer, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org

Discussion threads 2006-01-06

Mass. officials criticize OpenDocument decision

Mass. officials criticize OpenDocument decisionInterestingSo I guess this is far from over.Finally some common sense...My rep said his counterparts in MA were all over this and were about to launch "Operation Word Document Format". Microsoft has annointed these reps the title "Gang of Three" and they are charged with hitting...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Word processors, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., rep, American Politics, OOo

Discussion threads 2005-11-01

Open Office Beta2 results added to shootout

Open Office Beta2 results added to shootouthave you asked them?"If someone from Open Office can explain why it takes more than 100 times longer to create and write spreadsheet documents and why it uses up several more times memory that Microsoft Excel to work with the same data, I'd love...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Open Office Beta2, OpenOffice, beta, XML

Discussion threads 2005-09-15

Images: Microsoft gives peek at Office 12

Images: Microsoft gives peek at Office 12Wow - looks remarkably like...`OpenOffice 2.0 - Microsoft beaten to the punch again?Peek at Office 12I think the old interface is better and agree, they should leave well enough alone.Is it me, or MS decided that a Linux-like look is better?They seem to have...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office 12, Google Inc., America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-09-13

Has the notebook-to-handheld conversion begun?

Has the notebook-to-handheld conversion begun?Has the notebook-to-handheld conversion begun?This set up works for some but not all people. I bet their sales team might be a littled ticked off about this. What happens when a member of the sales team goes to a client's site to do a...

Tags: PDAs, Sales strategy, Notebooks, Desktops, Handhelds, desktop computer, notebook, PDA, sales, PC, handheld, desktop

Discussion threads 2005-08-03

OpenDocument gets standards stamp

OpenDocument gets standards stampSo why don't they do that with ...Now that they have a standard open document format, why not do the same thing with a package management format - one for source, and one for binary? That way, all packages would be built the same way and you...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, KOffice, MS Office Format, Application Packaging, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OOo

Discussion threads 2005-05-23