opendocument format (odf)
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Apache OpenOffice 3.4 makes official debut; LibreOffice makes its case
Let the games begin. Tuesday, the Apache Software Foundation announced the first official release of Apache OpenOffice, version 3.4, since Oracle donated it to the ASF in mid 2011.
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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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Oracle launches Cloud Office, eyes Google, Microsoft
Oracle rolled out Cloud Office, an effort to grab a piece of the online productivity suite pie. If successful, Oracle's Cloud Office could compete with Google and Microsoft among others. Oracle...
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Simon Phipps unbound
Since Simon Phipps took the corporate blinders off after leaving Oracle he has noticed a sea change among enterprises. He called these changes the first and second derivatives of liberty. The...
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Microsoft still pushing a standards tax
If a standard includes "IP restrictions" of any sort, especially royalties (no matter how reasonable or necessary you consider them) you're imposing a tax on all users for your invention.
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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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Microsoft sends mixed patent message
In the wake of the Open Invention Network challenge to Microsoft's patents related to Linux, the company's good cop-bad cop routine has gone into overdrive.
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Software patents hot topic at Microsoft event
At a Microsoft discussion panel in Sinapore, members of a Linux group wanted to know if Microsoft would release its patents to the Open Invention Network, in line with its pledge toward...
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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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Sun gets grant for AEGIS Project
By providing an open method for accessing third-generation Web pages and applications, AEGIS could leapfrog Microsoft's work in this area and not just take back an important sub-market, but...
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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 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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