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- Microsoft under fire for ODF glitch in Excel
- Microsoft under fire for ODF glitch in ExcelSo let me get this straightMicrosoft is finally following standards and everyone is all pissed off because the standards are incomplete and ambiguous?Wow, talk about damned if you do, damed if you don't.RE: Microsoft under fire for ODF glitch in ExcelAnd if everyone...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, ODF spec, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., ODF glitch, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- 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
- OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future
- I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document Format CDF had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it...
- Tags: Drama, OpenDoc, Fact, OpenDocument Format, Disagreement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- UK tech agency warns schools on Vista licensing
- Becta, the British government's agency for education technology (does the U.S. have anything remotely similar?), is telling schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft, Ars Technica reports. At issue: Microsoft's School Agreement program, which offers admins the comfort of a single license for all Windows PCs in the...
- Tags: School, Agency, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Becta, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Bob Muglia: Microsoft changing its approach to interoperability
- "What has changed is the way we think about how we work across the industry in terms of providing interoperable solutions. Our focus has shifted over the last few years." Those are the words of Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president of servers and tools.He was speaking at the Interop...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Microsoft: Why the ODF vs. OOXML battle matters
- Hardly a week goes by without some new story on OpenDoc Format ODF vs. Office Open XML OOXML file-format wars grabbing headlines. This week, its California is threatning to go the way of Massachusetts in decreeing that state agencies make ODF their document standard. I havent been one to...
- Tags: App Compatibility, Corporate strategy, Legal, Office, Office 2007, Office for Mac
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Microsoft releases PDF plugin
- A new free download from Microsoft will allow Office 2007 users to save documents in Adobe's PDF format, as well as Microsoft's own XPS format, the company announced today. The release is relevant to government operations in light of Massachusetts' adoption of an open formats regulation. The state...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Google joins open document group
- Google joins open document groupI think this is misstated>"Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, the XML-based OpenDocument Format has emerged as an alternative with backing from IBM, Sun Microsystems and others, as well as high-profile government customers in Massachusetts and Belgium."
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Word processors, OpenDocument Format, Google Inc., older app
- Discussion threads 2006-07-12
- Microsoft sponsors Office-ODF translator
- Is Microsoft cozying up to OpenDoc after all? Microsoft is now sponsoring an open source project to convert Office docs to OpenDocument format, News.com reports. Microsoft today launched the Open XML Translator project on SourceForge.net. The software will be available under the BSD open-source license. Microsoft isn't seeing...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
- Mass. switch to OpenDoc illegal, charges state Sen.
- The Massachusetts state senate is pressuring Gov. Mitt Romney's administration to postpone its big switch to Open Document Format, the Boston Globe reports. Accusing former adminstration officials of cramming the changeover down employees' throats, state Sen. Marc R. Pacheco issued a committee report that found officials" did not pursue this...
- Tags: Finance Secretary Eric Kriss, Secretary Eric Kriss
- Blog posts 2006-07-05
- Mass. holding tight to OpenDocument
- Mass. holding tight to OpenDocumentMass. is right, others should followIt makes complete sense to use an ISO document standard for long term document stoarge and archiving. If an Office plug-in is developed that meets the ODF standard then that will be OK as well. What the shills tend to scream...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), game, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-07-05
- MS: "OpenDoc too slow!" IBM: "MS Open XML too heavy!"
- MS: "OpenDoc too slow!" IBM: "MS Open XML too heavy!"ComplianceThe real "rubber hits the road" issue is compliance testing. With both camps positioning themselves to become Governmental purchasing requirements, they're going to eventually run into the issue of validation suites.A good example is [url=http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/]the W3C's CSS Validator.[/url]One problem...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), IBM Corp., OpenDoc, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2006-05-25
- MS: "OpenDoc too slow!" IBM: "MS Open XML too heavy!"
- Have mud. Will sling.According to ZDNet UK's Ingrid Marson, Microsoft is saying that the OpenDocument format is too slow: "The use of OpenDocument documents is slower to the point of not really being satisfactory," Alan Yates, the general manager of Microsoft's information worker strategy, told ZDNet...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-05-25
- OpenDocument alliance 'optimistic' about certification
- OpenDocument alliance 'optimistic' about certificationLike I said beforeODF should be used for documents like IGES is used for CAD.Every CAD system out there can convert or read a file that is in IGES format. ODF should exist for that same purpose. You shouldn't be forced to work in ODF but...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, native Office format, OpenDoc, OpenDocument Format, standards, XML
- Discussion threads 2006-04-20
- Open source community needs a haircut and to dress for success
- Former Massachusetts Chief Information Officer Peter Quinn, who was deeply involved of the OpenDocument vs. Microsoft format debate, has some advice for the open source community. If you want to get traction in commercial environments, lose the sandals and ponytails, Quinn said. "Open source has an unprofessional appearance, and...
- Tags: Peter Quinn, open source
- Blog posts 2006-03-28
- Microsoft joins OpenDoc committee, and the motive is...?
- Microsoft joins OpenDoc committee, and the motive is...?Time is on their side...All that needs to be done is slow it down enough their XML format becomes a "standard" before ODF.Microsoft will not be able to do anything nasty here, All eyes are watchingthem. Being part of the process will help...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDoc, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, ODx
- Discussion threads 2006-03-27
- Microsoft joins OpenDoc committee, and the motive is...?
- Microsoft has joined the INCITS/V1 Technical Committee, which plays a key role in the ratifying the OpenDocument format as an international standard, according to Ingrid Marson's report on ZDNet. Groklaw's Pamela Jones speculated that Microsoft's intentions may not be pure--the wolf in the hen house--and the company would like to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., INCITS/V1 Technical Committee, OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- Does Google acquisition of Writely improve ODF standing in govt?
- Google's acquisition of Upstartle, the makers of Writely, the Web-based word processor, has interesting implications for government, especially in light of the battle royal over Massachussetts' attempt to standardize on the Open Document format. Taking for granted that documents with certain security levels would not be developed over...
- Tags: Writely
- Blog posts 2006-03-10
- Writely: Great changes, same paradox
- A religious epiphany encapsulated as a business transaction. That's the only explanationEdwards calls it Microsoft's Pearl Harbor, it looks more like Google's Trojan Horse to me. for Gary Edwards' raving endorsement of Google's acquisition of Writely in response to Dan Farber's comments on the deal. The only explanation...
- Tags: Writely
- Blog posts 2006-03-10
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