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- Microsoft's OOXML becomes an ISO standard
- The vote is in and it appears that Microsoft has won its bid to have OOXML declared an ISO standard according to voting results obtained April 1. Does this mean that Microsoft's fight to become a recognized ISO standard is over? Not really. There is...
- Tags: Commission, Antitrust, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, ECMA 376, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Corporate Law, Quality, Business Operations, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Ease of use: But for who?
- You almost had me......until you made your first bullet point, the one about making alternative office apps import and export MS formats 100%. The issue doesn't exist due to a lack of trying; instead, it's probably because the wizards in Redmond keep making 100% compatability with MS formats a moving...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Office, ease of use, tech10171968@..., OOXML, open source, Microsoft Windows, bullet point, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
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- Should Microsoft open source old file formats?
- NLet Foundation, a dutch not-for-profit organization, has called for the opening up of older file formats from Microsoft. An excerpt from iTWire: Michiel Leenaars, strategy manager at NLnet Foundation and the longest sitting member of the Netherlands national standards body committee responsible for both ODF and...
- Tags: Open Source, Format, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- OOXML or OOPS? Microsoft blunders in its open document specification
- A performance architect for a Fortune Fifty corporation deconstructed Microsoft's MS-OOXML specification for open documents and found many, many poor definitions and more just plain wrong formulas. Rob Weir reports in his blog how Redmond allows mixing of radians and degrees in seven functions (remember the...
- Tags: Revelation, Formula, Specification, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format (ODF), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Defining the standards: Should Microsoft OOXML be an ISO standard?
- In the last week of February, 100 delegates from 32 countries met to discuss how to improve the OOXML specification to bring it to the level required for validation by the International Organization for Standardization ISO. Microsoft and its backer, ECMA, have until March 29 to make the changes required...
- Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., ECMA, OpenDocument Format, Standards, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- OOXML Standard: Time for Microsoft to stay on the playground
- Over the weekend I read about the New Zealand Open Source Society barking about patent threats within the OOXML standard. They complained that the 6000-page documentation was "peppered" with potential patent liabilities.First of all, I have to begin by asking this question: How can Microsoft, a company known for its...
- Tags: OpenOffice, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Jack Wallen
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Aspose.Recognition for .NET (zip)
- 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, 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 2008-07-04
- OOXML or OOPS? Microsoft blunders in its open document specification
- Should Microsoft's blooper collection me enacted into an ISO spec?A cup, an ounce, an inch, a week, a month, all have different definitions in different nations; even metric measurements differ across boundaries. Should a 'standard' which does not allow for these differences be made an ISO standard?a standard...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, johnbartley, OpenDocument Format, ISO, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- MS Office 2007 versus Open Office 2.2 shootout
- After yesterdays blog about the relevance of feature bloat, I figured that I would follow up with some quantitative analysis on the performance characteristics to measure resource bloat. This isnt the first time Ive measured Office CPU and Memory consumption of Microsoft Office and Open Office, I had a...
- Tags: News, Microsoft, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- IT news for April 18: Google's strong earnings; PayPal browsers; NetSuite's OneWorld suite
- "News to know" is a joint venture between TechRepublic and ZDNet that publishes every weekday morning. For breaking news and top stories, see ZDNet's Between the Lines. TechRepublic Paul Mah: PayPal to get selective about browsers Jason Hiner: Flock -- Is there room for a...
- Tags: Google Inc., TechRepublic Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, NetSuite Inc., Earnings, Web Browser, PayPal, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Professional Development, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Career, Internet, Operating Systems, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- The way we moved one of our pickiest users as a test subject
- The way we moved one of our pickiest users as a test subject was we just told her it was a new copy of "Office". No lie, just didn't say WHO'S office! :D MS vs Open.This is the user that will use what she "likes" regardless of...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, george ou, mitchwilson, off-topic, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org
- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
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