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Open Office vs. MS Office - the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition
Blog Each of these programs is able to open files from the MS Office equivalent EXCEPT, currently, the new Office 2007 format. Should you ever need to go back to MS Office, or need to send your documents to someone still using MS Office, OpenOffice has...
[August 15, 2008, 14:39]
Fasthosts offers SaaS-ish MS Office
Blog I'm waiting to hear back from MS's press office, and will report further details shortly. UPDATE: Microsoft Office's spokesperson has refused to comment on this one, due to commercial confidentiality issues with MS partners blah blah.
[February 6, 2008, 15:53]
MS Stuffs OOXML JTC1/SC34 Maintenance Committee
Blog This exposes M$'s tactics extremely clearly, and the EU's assault on Media player and Internet Explorer seem to be rather inadequate as most of MS's (illegal) abuses of its monopoly really do go on unchecked.
[October 29, 2009, 8:09]
Just how successful is the MS/Novell pact?
Blog The software giant said on Monday that Walmart, the supermarket giant, was migrating from RedHat Linux across to a combination of MS/Novell software. I'm getting cold feet about Microsoft's latest so-called Linux victory.
[January 25, 2007, 17:04]
Vista 'really good, really' says MS. 'Like we care?' says world
Blog Hence MS' new focus on Apple as the enemy: it's the only place it has a hope of holding back the tide. But if the expensive advertising campaign just pitches MS as an Apple-wannabe ("Look! It's not really a mid-life crisis, not really.
[July 9, 2008, 8:46]
Early take on MS/Novell is not all bright
Blog But there is a lot of mileage to run in the MS/Novell deal, me thinks, and there'll be a few twists to the tale yet. First take from this side of the Atlantic on the Microsoft/Novell partnership hasn't been entirely positive.
[November 3, 2006, 16:35]
More on the MS Linux patent kerfuffle
Blog I keep trying to give MS the benefit of the doubt - I really do - but the company's not making it easy. And as to why MS isn't divulging details: "We do go into more detail and talk about specific patents in discussions that we have with companies...
[May 15, 2007, 19:48]
TomTom agrees to pay MS for patents, settles suit
Blog CNET US reporter Ina Fried has just reported that MS and TomTom have come to terms on their suit-countersuit. Questions to be asked are: will TomTom write replacement software under the GPL that cuts out the MS patented areas?
[March 30, 2009, 17:17]
Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
Blog Hanselman is a senior program manager at MS, and clearly enthusiastic about the whole business. And furthermore, he says, that's a good thing. A great post over at Scott Hanselman's blog goes into some detail of the Microsoft code Google has...
[September 12, 2008, 9:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary -- Guaranteed MS Free!
Blog Monday 22/10/01 The free Western world seems remarkably adept at making weapons to use on itself these days. Take Nortel, which has come under attack from civil rights activists for its work with the Chinese government on mechanisms of state...
[October 26, 2001, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary -- Guaranteed MS Free!
Blog Thursday 25/10/01 You might know that ZDNet is owned by American company CNET: well, today was the day our enlightened and generous Yankee masters got us all on the blower for a conference call to discuss how things are going, and what happens next.
[October 26, 2001, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary -- Guaranteed MS Free!
Blog Wednesday 24/10/01 Off to Apple, to see the iPod. It's a hastily arranged launch, we're told, because there's only one iPod in the country, it arrived that afternoon and nobody was really expecting it.
[October 26, 2001, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary -- Guaranteed MS Free!
Blog Tuesday 23/10/01 While I slept, someone replaced the world with another model, somewhat weirder but with a few of the bugs out. Cannabis possession no longer an arrestable offence, the IRA busy turning their weapons into patios and the UK...
[October 26, 2001, 18:00]
Official MS Windows 7 Bloggers
Blog Check this out: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/14/welcome.aspx Its an official blog "Engineering Windows 7" Nothing. That's what is revealed. Until there is real information there, it constitutes PR, propaganda, or "officially" sanctioned...
[August 16, 2008, 10:03]
EC may extend MS antitrust probe
Blog The EC is to extend its antitrust investigation into Microsoft's behaviour during "a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard," the Wall Street Journal reports.
[February 8, 2008, 15:59]
Major bug in MS Excel 2007
Blog Got a copy of Excel 2007 handy? Try multiplying 850 by 77.1 - the answer should be 65535. Excel 2007 thinks it's 100000. Older versions of the spreadsheet - as well as the latest versions of the OpenOffice.org and Gnumeric packages - get it right.
[September 25, 2007, 10:44]
MS on how to make Windows Mobile competitive
Blog The key to making Windows Mobile a fiercer rival to the iPhone etc is, according to a New York Times interview with WinMob marketing bod Todd Peters, to put the operating system onto fewer handsets: I'd rather have fewer devices and be more focused...
[January 9, 2009, 16:10]
OpenOffice 3 reads MS Office 2007 Files
Blog The release of OpenOffice.org 3 must be getting very close now; Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is available for download, and it looks very, very good indeed. The best news about this release, at least for me personally, is that it can read Microsoft...
[September 30, 2008, 13:56]
MS seeks source of Windows Home Server leak
Blog According to an article on Techworld, Microsoft is actively seeking a person who leaked a preview version of Windows Home Server onto a blog site. The version was leaked to TheHotfix.net blog by a user named "Richard" soon after it was released to...
[April 17, 2007, 16:52]
MS and Novell: Relationship 'exceeding expectations'
Blog Microsoft and Novell are close to completing the sales targets that formed part of their alliance, three years into the five-year deal, representatives from the companies said on Thursday. Speaking at an IP Expo seminar in London, Novell's...
[October 8, 2009, 14:03]
