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Microsoft presses on regardless with OOXML SDK

Microsoft presses on regardless with OOXML SDKExcellent!And yeah, some MS bashers will whine, the rest of the world will move ahead.SpiteCan you really call it spite if people oppose a standard that actually contains a company's product's name? Seems like a fair enough objection to me.I'm Shocked![i]Durusau has an interesting...

Tags: Quality, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OOXML SDK, SDK

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

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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

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

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

The Open Source Commandments

Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...

Tags: Jason Perlow, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Operating Systems, Pharaoh Rameses, Software, UNIX

Blog posts 2008-04-09

A slim API for OOXML

A slim API for OOXMLNot surprisedI figured MS was going to go ahead with OOXML, regardless of what the ISO did. It's still an open question as to how much of it can be independently implemented (legally, as well as practically), but I expect that at least MS and...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, PRODUCTIVITY, Middleware, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, API, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., IBM SOM, XML

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

A slim API for OOXML

One of things that originally made me want more information about Microsoft Office document formats was the need to harvest data from documents uploaded to web sites, as well as to generate Excel spreadsheets that served as mini-applications for data entry by people in the field. This need occurred to me...

Tags: API, Office Document, Microsoft Corp., COM, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Office, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating system

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating systemIn the long run, Live services...will not make the big splash everyone is hoping for. Individual consumers may find it useful but Enterprises will move the services back in house. Especially with Open Source providing more and better services that can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Game players, Internet, Yahoo! acquisition, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, cloud computing, Google Inc., computing, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Will the opened stay unbroken?

Will the opened stay unbroken?SharePoint monopoly?in what market?Look, even if Sharepoint only had some "proprietary .Net API", it would be a trivial matter to wrap those in Web Services - .Net's WCF web services are very standards compliant.But SharePoint already has a Web Service interface.What's the big deal?Interoperability solutions are...

Tags: Groupware, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Web service, Web

Discussion threads 2007-11-21