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- Microsoft releases updated Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ramps up document interop efforts as ISO mulls OpenXML
- Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability -- and more patents to protect that IP. Following its interoperability announcement on Feb 21, the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- OpenDocument or OpenXML: Do you care?
- OpenDocument or OpenXML: Do you care?ChorusAn interesting thing about a chorus is that you can't have a dialog with one.[i]Microsoft counters that OpenDocument can't support everything they need to do to build the product their customers want. Edwards counters with detailed and sometimes subtle arguments, but his primary point is...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- Saving government docs with OpenDoc
- Here's the problem. Government agencies create documents in commercial software. Commercial software saves documents in proprietary formats. Proprietary formats either require specific, often expensive software, to open them, or increasingly likely over time, become extremely difficult to read at all. The Times reports on a brewing battle over the...
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- The political meaning of open
- Open source is not a political issue, but it sometimes plays one on TV. There are times when both sides in open source debates use what sounds like political rhetoric to demonize the other side. Here are some examples, Shai Agassi's "IP Socialism" gaffe, which followed Bill Gates' earlier comment...
- Blog posts 2005-11-22
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- Go-OO 3.1-10 (Windows)
- Go-OO is an OpenOffice.org fork that features faster load and response times, and several features not included in the standard version of the program. Go-OO's user interface is more familiar, with lots of small pieces of polish. Go-OO has built in OpenXML import filters and it will import your Microsoft...
- Software downloads 2009-09-16
- Go-OO! 3.1.1 (Mac)
- Go-oo has built in OpenXML import filters and it will import your Microsoft Works files. Compared with up-stream OO.o, it has better Microsoft binary file support (with eg. fields support), and it will import WordPerfect graphics beautifully. If you are reliant on Excel VBA macros - then Go-oo offers the...
- Software downloads 2009-09-04
- Where Worlds Collide - and then there's Sharepoint
- Where Worlds Collide - and then there's SharepointThe Open Web and the Walled GardenNicely stated:Going forward Sharepoint is everywhere, and as future iterations of a cloud oriented Microsoft Office hook into the next iterations of Sharepoint, it seems likely an extensive new walled garden will emerge. How and if this...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-25
- SoftCut OpenXML 1.0.6.0 (Windows)
- This Application is a XML Data Document Viewer With the following features: 1- XML Elements can be filtered and Searched. 2- Root Elements can be seen as Separate Table. 3- Each Table Can Be sent to Excel. 4- XML Text flow can be seen as if it's open in IE....
- Software downloads 2009-03-20
- Texas Democrats push ODF standard
- Texas Democrats push ODF standardMS view is anti-competitive when using an open standard Bet they would not say that if the bill supported their format.the bill is supported by smart TexansTexas gave us some of the best people in the nation.It is no surprise that astute people from there see...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- Microsoft: Vision to 'fundamentally re-imagine productivity'
- Microsoft: Vision to 'fundamentally re-imagine productivity'Am I missing something?So people are writing all kinds of confidential business stuff on clear window panes that anyone in the office or in the building across the street can see?Or in a public space where anyone can easily see?Ummm...?Why not simply dictate your company's...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Microsoft vs. Open Source competitors
- Microsoft vs. Open Source competitors Haven't you ever heard of Interoperability?The reality of IT unlike that unreality which ZDNet bloggers write about is that most if not all IT Departments run multiple IT systems from mainframes to distributed servers and multiple OS's from Unix to Windows to Linux.How hard is...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-08
- Why Microsoft
- Why MicrosoftIt was just an analogyI had a good idea how it worked, it was just a a simplistic example.But at the same time, I am sure that Apple would not sign a contract with Microsoft that would allow for them to walk away, leaving Apple without one of the...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-01
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?
- Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ship commercial offerings of StarOffice and Symphony based on the new OO 3 release and have a...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Office to support ODF, PDF as 'first-class citizens'
- Big news on the open document format front: Microsoft announced press release minutes ago (actually about 18 hours early, since someone broke PCWorld scooped their embargo) that Office SP2 will include native, "first-class citizen" support for the open source Open Document Format, as well as Adobe's PDF and the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learned
- OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learnedIt taught Microsoft that its days are numberedas an all powerful monopoly, and that it cannot just run roughshod wherever it likes without an equal and opposite reaction.It's taught us, the community, that maybe it's time to start lots of lobbying of our own. Perhaps lots...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- News to know: AMD; Google; Oracle worries; Eluma; Nuospace
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD releases Quad and Triple core Phenom processors Larry Dignan: Google paid click growth sluggish in February; More worries emerge. Techmeme. Oracle new license revenue raises IT spending worries Dennis Howlett: Nuospace: enterprise collaboration for the rest...
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Microsoft claims Office OpenXML standard Czechmate
- Microsoft claims Office OpenXML standard CzechmateM$ should withdraw OOXML fron ISOotherwise the OSS will speak out and M$ will have be embarased by the vote made by informed membbers.An eventual adoption of OOXML will cause backlash from FOSS loving countries and riots in Europe.MS Buyed votes in my countryFirst, sorry...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Microsoft claims Office OpenXML standard Czechmate
- Microsoft thinks it has the votes to get Office OpenXML OOXML, the format of Microsoft Office, approved as an ISO standard. The key, it says, was a decision by the Czech Standards Institute to approve the format. A Microsoft spokesperson wrote to ZDNet: This represents...
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
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