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- TextMaker Viewer 2010 (Windows)
- TextMaker Viewer is a free viewer for common word processing formats. It lets you open, view, and print documents from Microsoft Word, TextMaker, OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument as well as other common office file formats. This application will open a document created in Microsoft Word, TextMaker, or OpenDocument format. You will be...
- Tags: Word-processing, Microsoft Windows, OpenDocument Format, SoftMaker Software GmbH, TextMaker Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Word Processors, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-09-28
- JDBReport Designer 1.3 (Windows)
- JDBReport - application for quick generating and printing reports. Includes designer, generator and viewer of reports. JDBReport Designer can help you quickly create the required report, generate and print it or export to another format (HTML, Open Document Format (ODT, ODS), PDF, RTF, Excel). JDBReport is 100% pure Java application.Version...
- Tags: Report, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Printing, JDBReport, Microsoft Excel, Document Management, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2009-08-20
- Lotus Symphony 1.3 (Mac)
- The IBM Lotus Symphony suite--which is available at no charge--can help you take back control of your IT budget while giving most users the tools they need to excel at their jobs. Designed to handle the tasks that most people perform in a professional setting, IBM Lotus Symphony tools enable...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, OpenDocument Format, Spreadsheet, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Format (ODF), Productivity, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2009-08-20
- JDBReport Generator 1.3 (Windows)
- The JDBReport is used for generation, viewing and a print of reports. The JDBReport runs on any platform, because it is written in Java. It can work as a standalone application or be embedded into Java application by API interface. Reports can be generated from the templates of XML format,...
- Tags: Java Application, Export Corp., Microsoft Windows, JDBReport, Microsoft Excel, Programming Languages, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Java, Microsoft Office, Middleware, Office Suites, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2009-08-15
- In Office SP2, Microsoft manages to reduce interoperability
- Microsoft Office SP2 claims to have a fully compliant version of ODF, and that's probably true, as defined by the specification. It's just completely useless at interoperating with other vendors' products. This is not interoperability; it's an attack on the very concept. by Jeremy Allison
- Tags: Interoperability, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Jeremy Allison
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) 1.0 (Windows)
- The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides customers with the latest updates to the 2007 Office suite, including support for Open Document Format ODF to Microsoft Office 2007.
- Tags: Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2009-04-28
- Standardizing Office Suites @ PAE Limited
- Premier Auto Electric PAE Limited is a marketing and distribution company dealing in lead acid storage batteries, power backup systems and automotive parts. PAE wanted to standardize on a specific industry-standard office suite that would enable them to create complex documents, spreadsheets and presentation software. The office suite had to...
- Tags: Office Suites, IBM Corp., Premier Auto Electric, Symphony, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Backups, Emerging Technologies
- Case studies 2009-04-28
- Texas Democrats push ODF standard
- Texas Democrats are trying to make open source into a partisan issue. Their vehicle is HB 481, authored by Marc Veasey of Ft. Worth, who has sought to make a reputation as a thorn in the side of Texas' ruling Republicans, supporting hate crimes legislation, mass transit,...
- Tags: Texas, Democrat, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- SimpleTeX4ht 2.6 (Mac)
- SimpleTeX4ht is a Graphical user interface for TeX4ht that converts LaTeX files to HTML, XHTML, OpenDocument (.odt which is the native format of OpenOffice.org), MathML, DocBook or Text Encoding Initiative TEI. SimpleTeX4ht is free open source software.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Yves Gesnel, SimpleTeX4ht, Xhtml, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-02-02
- Sun gets grant for AEGIS Project
- By providing an open method for accessing third-generation Web pages and applications, AEGIS could leapfrog Microsoft's work in this area and not just take back an important sub-market, but enormous amounts of goodwill. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format (ODF), AJAX, Quality, Web 2.0, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Microsoft offers view into ODF 1.1, Open XML implementations for Office 2007 SP2
- Microsoft seems to be in the spirit of giving this holiday season. On Tuesday, the company released details about its implementation of Open Document Format 1.1 -- and Open XML -- for its forthcoming Office 2007 Service Pack 2, due early next year. More...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Office 2007, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, ODF 1.1 Note, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- 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
- Aspose.Recognition for .NET 1.1.0 (Windows)
- With Aspose.Recognition you can add intelligent PDF to word processing documents conversion to your 32-bit and 64-bit .NET applications. Aspose.Recognition reads a PDF file, recognizes editable document structures and allows saving the resulting document as Microsoft Word DOC, Office Open XML OOXML, OpenDocument ODT, Rich Text Format RTF, Wordprocessing ML...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Office Open XML, Aspose, Aspose.Recognition, Xhtml, OpenDocument Format (ODF), .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Emerging Technologies, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-11-27
- Generating Generic XForms for OpenOffice
- Because OpenOffice's internal representation is ODF XML, it is natural to generate ODF from other XML formats using an XSLT transformation. This applies equally well to an XForm inside of an ODF document. One always needs to take a few things into account when making an XSLT transform, such as...
- Tags: XSLT, OpenDocument Format, XSLT Filter, OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format (ODF), XML, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2008-08-13
- Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back down
- After Hillary Clinton spoke last night I listened closely for what the loudspeakers would play. It was Tom Petty's hit "I Won't Back Down." (UPDATE: Clinton did back down Wednesday, with the official announcement now expected in two stages Friday and Saturday. OOXML opponents, meanwhile, fight on.)...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hillary Clinton, Office Open XML, Opponent, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- What might come of the OOXML revolt?
- It's late, and in terms of the process it's hopeless, but the appeals of the ISO vote making Office Open XML OOXML an official standard could still have an impact. Andy Updegrove has been giving great coverage of all this at his Standards Blog, and writes that...
- Tags: Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- NY commits to open formats as MSFT supports ODF
- New York's CIO, Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart left, submitted a report to the governor and legislature, embracing open document formats but steering clear of picking favorites. Open document formats are a necessity since NY law requires the state to "conduct its business in an open, interoperable and transparent manner."...
- Tags: New York, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, MSFT, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- The company people want Microsoft to be
- The recent announcements regarding Microsoft's plans to include native support for ODF and PDF as part of Office 2007 SP2 was certainly unexpected. They had just managed to get OXML ratified by ISO, a move that was clearly aimed to counter a format that had benefited from its decision to...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, IM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Instant Messaging, Game Players, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Yahoo postpones shareholder meeting and more Microsoft tidbits
- I've been out on tour for my new Microsoft 2.0 book this week and haven't been posting as regularly as usual. So here's a grab bag of a few Microsoft-related notes of interest. * Yahoo has postponed its shareholder meeting. Just when you thought the seemingly-never-ending Microsoft-Yahoo...
- Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Microsoft Windows, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Virtualization, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- News to know: Windows 7; Google's Safe browsing; Perlow's spine
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today? Dancho Danchev: Google introducing Safe Browsing diagnostic to help owners of compromised sites Nate McFeters: More Snake Oil: LifeLock spokesperson's stolen id leads to law suits Jason...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Twitter, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
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