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- Microsoft backs document-format test tool
- Microsoft backs document-format test toolGreat ArticleThis is a really positive step for Microsoft.Finally, the Open XML-ODF Translator has been improved.You mean there's actually a chance it might work now? Somehow I doubt it. If Microsoft is "in competition with" ODF then it's in their best interest (as in...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, tool
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?
- Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...
- Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- 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
- Podcast: ODF, giant global graphs, Cubic Telecom and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the curious case of the OpenDocument Format and the role of the OpenDocument Foundation. David takes a deep dive into the controversy that rose out of the OpenDocument Foundation proposing an alternative to the OpenDocument Format. It turns out...
- Tags: Podcast, OpenDocument Format, David, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Podcasts, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- 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
- OpenDocument Foundation folds; will Microsoft benefit?
- OpenDocument Foundation folds; will Microsoft benefit?Only freedom is the real loserWhile corporations whose goals are to exploit the public (using well-placed lobbying and bribes) will be winners.The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.C'est La VieCDF? But, but, butno one needs two standards, right? :-)congratulations to Mary....for...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Idealism, benefit, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, CDF
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- OpenDocument Foundation folds. Will Microsoft benefit?
- The OpenDocument Foundation -- a group whose name and charter would lead one to believe that it was backing the OpenDocument Format ODF, but which ended up backing a different document format instead -- has closed its doors. Sam Hiser, a systems consultant who was Vice President...
- Tags: Benefit, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- ODF and differences of opinion
- ODF and differences of opinionNot really[i]It sounds like the OpenDocument Foundation thinks another XML document standard would better achieve their goals.[/i]Actually, it's much more of a political issue. They're after a file format that meets classical standards objectives such as testable conformance and round-trip integrity between conforming applications.According to...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, OpenDocument Format, OASIS, OpenDocument Foundation
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- ODF and differences of opinion
- When I read that the OpenDocument Foundation had decided to back away from work on ODF in favor of CDF (a W3C-backed standard) out of a belief that ODF wouldn't achieve the real-world interoperability goals the OpenDocument Foundation was originally created to achieve, I wondered whether I should bother with...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Will GNOME split give Microsoft Open XML standards win?
- Microsoft's efforts to overturn a vote earlier this year denying its Open XML "fast track" standards certification seem to be getting a boost from the GNOME Foundation. GNOME Foundation founder Miguel deIcaza is a Novell employee, and his actions have been closely scrutinized since Microsoft signed its...
- Tags: Gnome Foundation, Microsoft Office, GNOME, XML, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- 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
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML
- Microsoft's battle with backers of the Open Document Format ODF standard could end up going the way that so many contests do: Won by Microsoft as much -- if not more -- because of the ineptitude of its competition than by Redmond's prowess. Just as Netscape and...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- IBM Symphony falls on deaf ears without open source e-mail, calendar
- IBM's debut of its homegrown open source version of OpenOffice without e-mail or collaboration features is not surprising but nevertheless disappointing. On the one hand, Big Blue's recent endorsement and support and services plan for OpenOffice -- an acknowledgement of the obsolescence of SmartSuite and Workplace...
- Tags: Collaboration, Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, IBM Corp., IBM Lotus Symphony, OpenOffice, Open Source, Groupware, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards setters
- I've been a watcher of the great many standards setting processes for a great many years and there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that most people don't know about. In 2003, I even won an award for my coverage of standards from the American National Standards Institute:...
- Tags: JEDEC, Specification, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, OpenDocument Format, Session, Standards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Ubuntu Chief: Microsoft Invests Big $ On OpenXML Standards Effort
- Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is on a personal mission to crush Microsoft’s Open XML standards effort. On his blog Tuesday, the Canonical executive and Ubuntu developer encouraged members of the global open source community to reach out to their respective International Standards Organization (ANSI in the U.S.) and push for...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Vote, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- What is stalling open source in healthcare?
- What is stalling open source in healthcare?Canada has a universal care system, but not FLOSSI'm Canadian, looking at this from a different perspective.I don't think that whether there is public health insurance or even better a public health care (not a "just in time sick care insurance") really affects whether...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, FLOSS, open source, health care
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- ComputerWorld: Microsoft legislatively TKO's open document formats. At least stateside.
- ComputerWorld: Microsoft legislatively TKO's open document formats. At least stateside.When I first heard this[i]"For example, China, where they're working on their own open document format. Proving that "public" policy can be a motivating factor for vendors like Microsoft, the company will apparently be supporting China's Uniform Office Format UOF —...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, OpenDocument Format, XML
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- Google Apps To-Do Item #72: Make OpenOffice.org into a Google Apps' offline client
- If there are two primary objections from the thick client camp when it comes to Web-based applications, then those two are lack of features and the so-called off-line problem (what some refer to as the "airplane problem"). If you need access to a Web server to retrieve Web forms (blank...
- Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Microsoft cranks up its Open XML standardization campaign
- Microsoft cranks up its Open XML standardization campaignThe way to customer choice and interoperability is a single good standard.MS only wants to create confusion and compatibility problems with a second standard, that is way to complex and ambiguous. A good document standard is not rocket science, and there is no...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, MS Only, Open XML, OOXML, MS-OOXML, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
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