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- Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking
- The politicking is almost over. At midnight Central European Time on Saturday March 29, voting regarding whether Microsoft's Open Office XML OOXML document format will get ISO standards approval will close. For the past month -- ever since the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting BRM in Geneva ended...
- Tags: iso, microsoft corp., opendocument format, standardization, politicking, iso standards, opendocument format (odf), process improvement, quality, business operations, emerging technologies, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
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- Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership
- Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadershipIt's GovernmentWhy should anybody put any effort into any government project. There is no penalty for failure. The pay checks keep on rolling.The oversight Congress are a bunch of self serving fossils, who for the most part are clueless.However, the public...
- Tags: six sigma, government, brain drain, bad leadership, cmmi, leadership
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Snow Leopard to leave PowerPC users out in the cold?
- Snow Leopard to leave PowerPC users out in the cold?Well, every platform eventually comes to an endIt does not mean that because the developer tools are "Intel only" the environment will be unable to generate PowerPC binaries, e.g., the gcc compiler can emit binaries for all manner of CPU architectures.Apple...
- Tags: processors, power pc architecture, ibm powerpc, snow leopard, apple inc., powerpc user, cold
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth blames ISO for OOXML's win
- Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML is a "sad" day for ISO and the computing public. "I think it de-values the confidence people have in the standards setting process," Shuttleworth said in an interview just hours after the...
- Tags: ubuntu, mark shuttleworth, standard, microsoft office, iso, microsoft corp., opendocument format, ooxml, opendocument format (odf), iso standards, process improvement, emerging technologies, quality, business operations, paula rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- 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...
- Tags: opendocument format (odf), ooxml, opendocument format, lessons learned, microsoft corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roost
- Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. Like teenagers biologically programmed to step across every boundary put in place by their parents, the digerati, equipped with the constantly evolving tools of their trade (everything from YouTube-like video sharing sites to widely available hacks of anti-piracy systems), have been been...
- Tags: apple, entertainment, general, government, hollywood on demand, legal, personal technology, web technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Another politician comes out against child predators
- Its somewhat ironic that Illinois state Sen. Matt Murphy is using an online chat to promote his bill to ban MySpace, Facebook and personal blogs from computers in public libraries and schools, the IL Daily Herald reports. Murphy is hosting an online chat tomorrow at 5:30 CST on his...
- Tags: congress, government technology, state &, local govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- YouTube: Must see TV? 'User Generated Politics' presidential campaign 2008
- On January 23, I announced: Social media conversations have entered the big leagues, the high-stakes presidential ones.In Social Media conversations: Talking or selling?, the first story in my continuing coverage of what I have dubbed “User Generated Politics,” I analyzed how Hillary Clinton used a slick video-enabled Website campaign headquarters...
- Tags: culture, government, hillary clinton, legal, local, political campaign, politics, president clinton, presidential race, television, tv, user generated politics, user-generated content, video, wikipedia, youtube
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Jobs drowning in his own Kupertino Kool-Aid
- Jobs drowning in his own Kupertino Kool-AidWatch the zealots resort to personal attacksI've written exactly what you wrote and the best the Mac zealots can do is make personal attacks on me and my mother. I'd give you 2 thumbs up but the system will only let me give you...
- Tags: recruitment & selection, digital rights management (drm), digital media, digital music, apple itunes, apple inc., job, kupertino kool-aid, digital-rights management, zealot
- Discussion threads 2007-02-08
- Jobs drowning in his own Kupertino Kool-Aid
- A day late and a dollar short, I know. But since I was the one out on a limb for a while writing and making videos about digital rights management technologies and how Apples in particular officially called FairPlay but I called it UnFairPlay was harmful to consumers, not to...
- Tags: general, legal, software infrastructure, entertainment, mobile, personal technology, security, hollywood on demand, apple, steve jobs, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- File format wars: Is there more to ODF vs. OOXML than vendor politics?
- File format wars: Is there more to ODF vs. OOXML than vendor politics?TARDISYeah, but are they stuck with that stupid postbox or does theirs morph like it should?Microsoft, the lords of timeOh that wonderful 'open' standard. 6000 pages in which we learn tat any implementation of MS XML must be...
- Tags: opendocument format (odf), miguel, opendocument format, oasis
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
- File format wars: Is there more to ODF vs. OOXML than vendor politics?
- Standards battles tend to be all about politics and politicking, as the increasingly heated Open Document Format ODF vs. Open Office XML OOXL file-format contest proves. Blogs and lawsuits have become the new battleground. In this corner, we have Bob Sutor, Vice President of Standards and Open Source for...
- Tags: corporate strategy, legal, office, office 2007, linux, ooxml encounter, opendocument format
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- When the Internets win elections
- Our president and Senator Ted Stevens notwithstanding, there are a lot of people who understand the Internet and use it to win elections. We know it is a series of tubes that delivers money and votes in exchange for effectively communicated ideas and positions. There is, though, an idea that...
- Tags: business &, technology, net
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Microsoft's solution to having its DRM hacked: sue
- When it comes to keeping Microsoft's digital rights management technology from getting hacked -- a situation that recently provoked one of the fastest patches ever to be turned around by the Redmond-based company because of the stakes -- the company has already shown how its technological options are limited....
- Tags: drm watch, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
- Bring back the HP Way, Mr. Hurd
- Bring back the HP Way, Mr. HurdWhic HP Way ?Would that be the HP/Compaq Way? The HP/Compaq/Digital Way? The HP/Compaq/Digital/Tandem Way ??When a corporate culture is this diluted, it is, sadly, hard to bring back a culture few, if any, can even remember.Start by having Patricia Dunn leave...
- Tags: hewlett-packard co., hp way
- Discussion threads 2006-09-22
- On document formats, Microsoft slowly bends to the customer's will
- The hi-tech world woke up to news this morning that Microsoft has finally decided to put some wood behind the OpenDocument Format ODF. I deliberately chose the word wood instead of support even though most reports are construing this as some form of support. It is, but not...
- Tags: microsoft corp., microsoft office, opendocument format
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
- Get ready for election spam
- As election season kicks into high gear, get ready for a lot of political spam. As in a lot,says the Washington Post. A "potentially breathtaking" Internet loophole in election spending regs means that wealthy people can pour unlimited funds into Internet politicking without having to disclose identities or how much...
- Tags: spam, wealthy individual
- Blog posts 2006-06-14
- Don't do it
- "Combined, MSN and Yahoo would have all three pieces and, at least on paper, could leapfrog Google," according to The Wall Street Journal. I didn't realize they were passing the crack pipe around the Journal's newsroom. This is such aThe story sounds like internal Microsoft politicking finding its way...
- Tags: microsoft corp., yahoo! inc.
- Blog posts 2006-05-03
- New Net political rules a fine compromise
- The FEC's new rules about Internet politicking are either a sign of a hands-off attitude towards blogs or represent greater control of paid online advertising, according to which headline you read. It's both of course. And why is that so confusing? EJ Dionne of the Post says the decision walks...
- Tags: internet
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- The Non IT, IT boss, Isn't
- The Non IT, IT boss, Isn'tLost in translation?If I argued that my total inability to speak, understand, or read Mandarin qualifies me as an intermediary on business dealings between Western and Chinese companies you'd think me nuts, right?Right.Now think about companies hiring non IT people to interface their business and...
- Tags: strategy, productivity, business knowledge, bpa, information technology, joe, mandarin
- Discussion threads 2006-03-29
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