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Monday, 01 February 2010 09:56
Danes to go the ODF route
Denmark has announced that it will stop using some Microsoft document formats and move to the open document format (ODF) in April next year.
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 11:30
Microsoft seeks review in i4i patent case
Despite complying with a court order to modify Word 2003 and 2007, Microsoft is seeking a rehearing of its appeal against the original verdict in the patent infringement case brought against it by Canadian developer i4i.
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 05:28
Dutch government launches ODF service
The Dutch government has launched a web service called Officeshots.org which enables users to compare the output quality of various office suites as far as interoperability is concerned.
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Monday, 28 September 2009 03:53
IBM promotes Linux adoption in Kazakhstan
IBM has opened a Linux innovation centre in Kazakhstan to help promote the adoption of open source and open standards.
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Monday, 27 July 2009 04:33
Microsoft proposes retrospective browser ballot
Microsoft's proposal to provide European consumers with a browser ballot screen appears to fall in line with the European Commission's (EC's) position. The company also has a proposal aimed at settling the interoperability case.
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 12:37
A pragmatic European approach to open standards (a must-read)
The European Journal of ePractice has just published a research report showing
that the achievement of wide-scale implementation depends not only on the
openness of the process, but also on the willingness to negotiate and achieve a
compromise.
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 07:49
New arrangement opens IBM's Lotus Symphony to wider audience
A new release of IBM's Lotus Symphony office suite brings the software to a wider audience with a beta for Mac OS X and a full version for Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Can Symphony take a significant share of the office suite market from OpenOffice and Microsoft, or is the company's attempt to compete merely an Irrelevant Business Move?
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Friday, 01 August 2008 04:05
IBM Lotus: we're beating Microsoft
IBM's Lotus business claims to be winning millions of seats away from Microsoft's Exchange, including some key wins in emerging markets. Lotus outgrew Microsoft in 2Q08, company officials claimed.
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 07:36
Microsoft delivers Open XML updates for Mac Office but no ODF support
The introduction of Office 2007 brought a wave of document compatibility issues for users of Office 2004, but Microsoft has at last delivered a non-beta version of its Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. And while ODF support has been promised for Office 2007 SP2, there's no sign of it for Office 2008.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 10:19
IBM gives free concert with Lotus Symphony 1.0
IBM's Office alternative Lotus Symphony has reached version 1.0. Not only is it available for both Available for Windows and Linux, but it is absolutely free.
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Friday, 23 May 2008 08:17
EU 'œnotes' Microsoft's decision to support ODF in Office 2007
Microsoft is planning on releasing SP2 in 2009, with support to save
documents in ODF format as standard, in the name of ‘interoperability’,
while adding PDF and XPS save/export compatibility without requiring
any add-on software. The EU’s Commission has ‘taken note’ and welcomed
the decision, while promising to investigate it further. What does this
mean?
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:24
OpenOffice.org readies Mac-native release
One of the main barriers to the wider adoption of the OpenOffice.org (OOo) suite by Mac users is its dependence on X11, as few of them are comfortable working in that environment. If that requirement vanished and OOo took on the familiar Aqua look and feel, would you give the open source office suite a try?
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 14:54
Uh-oh... Microsoft Office 2007 not OK with OOXML
A test of Office 2007’s compatibility in outputting OOXML compliant
documents has shown that Microsoft’s latest Office suite generates
files with errors, failing the test. But is this really a surprise?
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 06:33
What the OOXML fiasco can teach us
The late Charles M. Schulz, the genius behind Peanuts, could make a much more telling comment on human foibles through one of his cartoon strips than many a writer can in 1000 words.
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Sunday, 09 March 2008 14:56
Microsoft promises ODF, OOXML interoperability
In the wake of the ISO rejecting Microsoft's OOXML document format as an international standard, Microsoft has launched its Document Interoperability Initiative pledging to work with industry to ensure its document formats remain interchangeable with industry standards.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 20:45
OOXML: the propaganda war has begun
The first salvo in the document standard war of 2008 has been fired - and, predictably, it favours the Microsoft camp. A study by the Burton Group, a firm of consultants, has come down hard on the side of Microsoft Office Open XML.
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Open Sauce
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