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Don't pirate MS-Office: use ours, says OpenOffice.org
Talkback Well, there is always the Mozilla calendar app and while it may not be as automatic and hand holding as MS Outloo it is free.
[May 5, 2006, 21:51]
MS vs Tom Tom
Talkback They are a little late on some of these, as other companies have filed patents earlier than MS. Here is an excerpt from an article on Microsoft's whining, I mean complaining. As for the patents themselves, looking them over, it's almost scary how...
[February 27, 2009, 13:24]
Once you get used to some small changes, it far exceeds MS Office
Member Review The first thing I noticed was that when I took of MS Office and put on OOo, I had ~200MB more space on my hard drive then before. On my 9.4GB HDD, those 200MB are precious. Not only is the program far smaller, the files are smaller too!
[April 5, 2004, 10:04]
Sun vs MS: Let's call the whole thing off
News Take me to Pt II/ MS: Embrace and extend As the legal battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over Java continues to drag on, the specter of Microsoft's C# Java competitor is looming large. At the time Sun sued Microsoft more than three years...
[December 11, 2000, 12:51]
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]
Official MS Windows 7 Bloggers
Blog Comment I can't believe I was that early on a MS release so I thought I had chanced across an unknown citation or URL. I usually ignore them altogether until they hit my special email Junk folder I've set aside for MS s---- er, stuff.
[August 17, 2008, 18:07]
DBSync for MS Access and MSSQL
Downloads DBSync for MS Access & MSSQL performs MS Access to MSSQL and vice versa database conversions with synchronization and ability to choose particular tables to be converted simply by configuring several options in the wizard-like application.
[November 13, 2007, 21:42]
Open Office vs. MS Office - the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition
Blog Comment During the installation process it will ask you if you want OpenOffice to be the default for opening MS Office documents; if you answer "no", you can then continue to work as normal, and use OpenOffice "on the side" to see how you like it.
[August 15, 2008, 15:19]
New security hole found in MS Word
Talkback Why does anyone need MS Word or any other super-formatable program? I still use nothing but plain text, or if I "must" have something fussy-looking I create an HTML page using CSS.reliable and dependable" - MS "spokespersons" = stupid and dumb.
[May 25, 2006, 2:26]
EMS MS SQL Extract
Downloads EMS MS SQL Extract is a powerful and easy-to-use utility for creating database backups in a form of SQL scripts. MS SQL Extract includes a graphical wizard, guiding you through the extract process step by step, and a command-line service for...
[October 28, 2007, 7:00]
New security hole found in MS Word
Talkback Way to drag your feet MS. Why do we have to wait till the 14th to get a fix?
[May 23, 2006, 1:41]
Ms. Pac-Man
Downloads Ms. PAC-MAN by Namco is one of the most popular video games in American arcade history! Who can forget the countless hours and quarters spent avoiding the ghosts while munching on the dots? Or gobbling up the fruit for bonus points!
[July 25, 2008, 8:00]
Another MS Sponsored Story ?
Talkback I notice that 3 (if I might be so bold as to use the familiar) said nothing about the stability, features or interoperability of the OOo suite, just that it didn't look like the MS Office suite, which it seems is a problem for him.
[November 6, 2008, 13:57]
Ms. PAC-MAN
Downloads Ms. PAC-MAN by Namco is the one of the most popular video games in American arcade history! Who can forget the countless hours and quarters spent evading the pesky ghosts while chompin' on the dots and gobbling up the fruit for bonus points!
[November 19, 2005, 7:00]
Office Open XML is the default format of MS Office 2007
Talkback Make a new file in MS Office 2007 This is easily verifiable. Put in it everything you like and save in the default format Check the xml files in the OOXML package file (.docx, .xlsx or pptx) and verify them against the official Ecma open standard.
[February 28, 2008, 19:15]
Actually MS Office 2007 complies with official Ecma standard
Talkback MS Office 2007 uses that version and validates on those XML schema's . Currently there is only one official open standard version of OOXML and that is the Ecma 376 standard.http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
[February 28, 2008, 17:43]
Don't pirate MS-Office: use ours, says OpenOffice.org
News If you have a copy of MS-Office at work, at school, at home -- are you sure where it came from? OpenOffice.org 2 is a fully featured office suite, similar in functionality to MS-Office. OpenOffice.org has launched a campaign to persuade companies...
[May 4, 2006, 12:35]
BeSafe for MS Windows
Downloads Although complimentary to the PalmOSâ version, BeSafe for MS Windowsâ is released as a standalone title. There are different reasons for doing so, one of which is to protect users not running MS Windowsâ from paying for something they may not use.
[January 27, 2003, 7:00]
"Unclear"? Bwhahahaha MS - Already Dead to Consumers
Talkback Ms is already dead to consumers. How about ZERO successes with consumers since 1995? Huge launches for zero results including: MSN ISP, MSN search, Talking Barney's, Home Networking, WMA music stores, WMP movie stores, Win Mobile, Tablets, Home...
[January 9, 2008, 17:57]
Gartner? Do THey Disclose How much MS pays them?
Talkback Has their EVER been a Gartner study that doesn't paint any and every MS product as the BEST EVER that should be install right now - today? One thing Gartner doesn't point out is in 7 years time, MS might not have the resources left to create the...
[December 7, 2007, 20:13]
