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- Early draft of Microsoft XAML now online
- An early draft of Microsoft's XAML specification has been brought online under its "open specification promise." This fulfills a promise made last week at OSBC. XAML stands roughly for eXtensible Application Markup Language, and enables the creation of object hierarchies for use online. The...
- Tags: XAML, Microsoft Corp., Open Specification Promise, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Microsoft bends over backwards to prove there's an 'open' in OOXML
- Microsoft bends over backwards to prove there's an 'open' in OOXMLEU and OOML[i]For the record, I requested more information from the European Commission regarding exactly how OOXML fits into its latest investigation and got no response.[/i]I emailed the ECIS about their complaint too. Also no responce. However, their web site...
- Tags: Open Specification Promise, plug-in, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, Microsoft Office, XML
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
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- Experiences With Specification-Based Intrusion Detection
- Specification-based intrusion detection, where manually specified program behavioral specifications are used as a basis to detect attacks, have been proposed as a promising alternative that combine the strengths of misuse detection accurate detection of known attacks and anomaly detection ability to detect novel attacks. However, the question of whether this...
- Tags: Specification, Attack, Intrusion Detection, Security
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Microsoft makes pledges to support Apache, PHP, Ruby
-  Like Dana, I was surprised to hear of Microsoft's decision to become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation, announced at OSCON late last week. It wasn't the only announcement. The Redmond, Wash based Windows giant also shared that it would make a contribution to the...
- Tags: PHP, Apache Software Foundation, Ruby, Microsoft Corp., Scripting Languages, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Is Microsoft's open systems promise reliable?
- Is Microsoft's open systems promise reliable?Threat assessmentYour point on the ever-shifting sands of Microsoft intentions simply underscores one of the basic rules of threat assessments: "assess enemy capabilities, not enemy intentions."In the present instance, that means that the only things that others should count on from Microsoft are the enforceable...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- Microsoft's ODF support looks good ... but on paper only
- Microsoft’s pledge to support ODF as a native file format in Office 2007 SP2 is good news for OpenOffice â€" but on paper only. The devil is in the details â€" and Microsoft hasn’t spelled out precisely how or if its ODF 1.1 implementation will support macros...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gap
- The European Union will investigate Microsoft's support for the Open Document Format ODF in Office. It wonders whether the move increases competition. (Picture from BoycottNovell.) This comes just a day after Microsoft, with great fanfare, said it would add support for ODF, Adobe PDF and...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, European Union, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Analyst: vendor issues still dog Service Component Architecture
- Web services guru and consultant David Chappell, who has been somewhat skeptical about Service Component Architecture SCA, says the specification is starting to gain traction. However, there are still nagging issues around the ways vendors are supporting component development within the SCA framework. Over the past year,...
- Tags: Service Component Architecture, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Microsoft claims victory in ISO struggle over OOXML
- Microsoft claims victory in ISO struggle over OOXMLApril Fools?[i]My problem here is not with Microsoft. I know for certain that Steve Ballmer is a great and good man.[/i]I'm sorry, but if a corporation corrupts a standards process the way they did, the person at the helm of that corporation is...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format, ISO
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefully
- Microsoft General Counsel and IP chief Brad Smith got a round of applause at the Open Source Business Conference Monday for showing respect to the open source community -- but he faced some tough questioning from those in the bazaar. One attendee asked how...
- Tags: Software, Brad Smith, IP, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Google playing politics with open source
- Google playing politics with open sourceWell SaidI agree with this, Google has the same back office meetings that any other company does, and the main focus is selling more product and bringing the bling through the door. Both companies have their ups and downs and for us to act...
- Tags: subject line, Even Microsoft, open source, F/OSS, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Microsoft OSP is a pie crust promise
- Microsoft OSP is a pie crust promiseMS only has our best interest in mind.NOT!Keep it simple stupid is a good standard, MS standard is anything but simple.Let's see if I get this straightThe main gist of the paper is that OSP is not GPL and this, therefore, proves that...
- Tags: MS Only, Microsoft Corp., GPL, OOXML
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Microsoft OSP is a pie crust promise
- As any fan of Mary Poppins knows, a pie crust promise is easily made, and easily broken. (Picture from Therapy and Movies.) The Software Freedom Law Center has a paper out today making this charge regarding Microsoft's Open Specification Promise. It was easily made and can be...
- Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., Delegation, Microsoft OSP, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?
- European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?Fine is for the pastThis fine is for the past and has nothing to do with their current 'openness'!I'm gladI'm so glad Microsoft have suddenly changed and decided to makes these moves purely out the goodness of their own hearts.Who knows if the...
- Tags: Servers, European Commission, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Healthvault asks the questions while Google goes beta
- Microsoft is way ahead of Google in asking the questions which need answering before either company can demand everyone's health records. Over the last week Microsoft has put out specific promises on privacy and interoperability for the community to review. (The picture is from the blog of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Healthvault, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Microsoft bends over backwards to prove there's an 'open' in OOXML
- Microsoft is taking new measures to prove that the "open" in its Office Open XML OOXML document format belongs there. In response to feedback from the national bodies who are involved in Microsoft's ISO standards bid for OOXML, Microsoft is changing how it is making Office binary-format...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- 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
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXMLIs the vote the most important issue?A splintering of ODF advocates won't affect IBM's attempt to discomfit a rival nor slow those who believe Microsoft villainous. But it does reduce or make less enthusiastic the number of those campaigning against Office and for ODF...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Matusow, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- GPLv3 the impetus for Microsoft's latest Linux attack campaign
- With one stroke, Microsoft has ended any illusion that it planned to try to build bridges with the open-source community. And it appears the primary reason for Microsofts decision to go back on the public attack against Linux and other open-source software is the looming Version 3 of the Free...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Linux, Novell
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Sun mulls Apache's "Dear Jonathan" letter
- Repeating a tactic that worked 5 years ago, the Apache Software Foundation went public this morning with a dispute with Sun over a test suite that would allow Apache to certify compatibility of their implementation of Java code named Harmony. Geir Magnusson, VP of the Apache Harmony project, wrote:Dear Jonathan,...Since...
- Tags: Sun, Linux, Licenses, Java, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
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