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Microsoft adds ODF support, URL shortening to its SkyDrive storage service
Microsoft has added another bunch of new features to its SkyDrive cloud storage service.
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In Office SP2, Microsoft manages to reduce interoperability
Microsoft Office SP2 claims to have a fully compliant version of ODF, and that's probably true, as defined by the specification. It's just completely useless at interoperating with other...
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Microsoft backs document-format test tool
The online tool is intended to ensure that different vendors' implementations of OOXML produce compatible results.
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Microsoft under fire for ODF glitch in Excel
Microsoft has come under fire for spreadsheet interoperability issues in its latest release of Office 2007 SP2, but the company said it is an issue inherent in ODF 1.1.
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Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams
The Sun/Oracle merger probably offers more genuine synergies and opportunities than anything either company has done in the past. One of those, a commercially minor but personally interesting...
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Texas Democrats push ODF standard
Texas Democrats are trying to make open source into a partisan issue.
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Microsoft offers view into ODF 1.1, Open XML implementations for Office 2007 SP2
Microsoft seems to be in the spirit of giving this holiday season. On Tuesday, the company released details about its implementation of Open Document Format 1.1 -- and Open XML -- for its...
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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....
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Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed through a simple Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced.
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Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back down
If Microsoft wants its standard to stand on equal footing with the ODF, it needs to stop embedding closed binary objects in the Office format, and stop treating it as proprietary.
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What might come of the OOXML revolt?
How much will it cost to build OOXML-ODF conversion tools through Open Office which are better than those Microsoft itself puts out? On that may hang the question of whether you can read your...
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NY commits to open formats as MSFT supports ODF
New York's CIO, Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart (left), submitted a report to the governor and legislature, embracing open document formats but steering clear of picking favorites. Open document...
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Microsoft's backward route to ODF support
The changes Redmond's own OOXML underwent in becoming a standard make it more difficult for the company to support OOXML, rather than ODF, in Office 2007.(By Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK)
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The company people want Microsoft to be
The recent announcements regarding Microsoft's plans to include native support for ODF and PDF as part of Office 2007 SP2 was certainly unexpected. They had just managed to get OXML ratified by...
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Yahoo postpones shareholder meeting and more Microsoft tidbits
I've been out on tour for my new Microsoft 2.0 book this week and haven't been posting as regularly as usual. So here's a grab bag of a few Microsoft-related notes of interest.
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News to know: Windows 7; Google's Safe browsing; Perlow's spine
Notable headlines: Ed Bott: How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today? Dancho Danchev: Google introducing Safe Browsing diagnostic to help owners of compromised sites Nate McFeters:...
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EU to investigate Office support for ODF
The European Commission is taking a suspect view of Microsoft's upcoming support for ODF in Office. The EC reacted to the news with this statement: The Commission would welcome any step that...
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OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF
Microsoft blames backwards compatibility issues and changes made during the ISO ratification process for its decision to support ODF instead of OOXML in Office 2007.
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Microsoft's ODF support looks good ... but on paper only
Microsoft’s pledge to support ODF as a native file format in Office 2007 SP2 is good news for OpenOffice – but on paper only. The devil is in the details – and Microsoft hasn’t spelled...
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EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gap
Credibility may not mean much in the proprietary universe, where money counts for everything and truth is a commodity. In the open source world, political values like credibility are real....
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