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IntrospeQt iCapture Desktop
Downloads IntrospeQt iCapture Desktop is a simple document capture solution designed to effectively capture, classify and convert paper documents into searchable electronic formats. Indexed document images stored in the iCapture storage system can be easily...
[July 14, 2009, 4:08]
Microsoft wins latest round in OpenDocument battle
News Standards body Ecma International has created a committee to standardise Microsoft Office document formats, handing the software giant a victory in an intensifying struggle over desktop software. The Office Open XML committee at Ecma, meanwhile...
[December 13, 2005, 16:15]
Help Microsoft stay true to its word
Talkback The world is crying for new document formats. We want open document formats because we want to own the documents we created. Dear Jon, And yes, there really is demand. This is not simply hyperbole. By the way, the command line is a fine thing.
[October 5, 2005, 20:38]
Massachusetts may embrace Microsoft Office
News Massachusetts has proposed changing its standards policy to make room for Microsoft Office document formats. All agencies are expected to migrate away from proprietary, binary office document formats to open, XML-based office document formats.
[July 3, 2007, 8:48]
Microsoft throws governments a standardisation bone
News The company hopes this will allay concern about its level of control over document formats. Many customers, notably government agencies with long-term record archiving needs, have pressured Microsoft to make its document formats available on...
[November 22, 2005, 8:30]
IBM to sit out Office format standards process
News IBM does not intend to participate in an Ecma International standards committee that is standardising Microsoft Office document formats, an IBM company executive said on Tuesday. As a member of the Geneva, Switzerland-based Ecma organisation, IBM...
[December 21, 2005, 8:15]
ECMA approves Microsoft document format
News A vote to make Microsoft Office document formats an international standard was approved on Thursday, according to a Microsoft representative. At the general assembly of Ecma International in Zurich, Switzerland, Microsoft's Office Open XML — a set...
[December 8, 2006, 8:30]
Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards
News The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has cited legal concerns over Microsoft's software as a factor behind its decision to only use document formats based on open standards. Alan Yates, general manager of Microsoft's Information Worker Business...
[September 5, 2005, 17:40]
OASIS reports on XML for business
News The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, on Tuesday announced the Universal Business Language (UBL) initiative, intended to promote standardised document formats to ease information exchange between...
[January 29, 2003, 10:18]
Report backs PDF variant for long-term archiving
News Although the report addresses many rival document formats, including the OpenDocument Format (ODF), it highlights two Microsoft formats in its conclusion as being worth monitoring in the future: the XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Office Open...
[April 24, 2008, 17:22]
Higher-education bodies warned over XML transition
News The Joint Information Systems Committee has published a report highlighting the need for co-ordinated action to help the higher-education sector make a cost-effective switch to XML-based office-document formats.
[August 9, 2007, 17:17]
Document standards
Talkback The document formats we have used for years have been driven by the proprietary, commercial needs of the supplier. The usual standardisation in businesses on the MS Office formats has been driven by the overwhelming commercial success of Office in...
[February 26, 2008, 13:46]
Microsoft Office 2007 to support ODF, PDF
News On Wednesday, the company said it plans to add new formats to Office 2007, including OpenDocument Format (ODF), Portable Document Format (PDF), and XML Paper Specification (XPS). Microsoft is opening up Office to other file formats, slowly but...
[May 22, 2008, 8:40]
Massachusetts finalises open standards proposal
News In addition, Microsoft document formats would have to be subject to "joint stewardship" by a standards body not controlled by one company or a small consortium. The state on Wednesday posted the final version of its Enterprise Technical Reference...
[September 26, 2005, 11:50]
Microsoft to release ODF translator for Word
News Microsoft, meanwhile, has standardised the Office Open XML (OOXML) document formats at Ecma International and is in the process of seeking certification with the ISO, or the International Organization for Standardization.
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News The object of the DII was to boost the interoperability between Office Open XML (OOXML) and rival XML-based document formats such as the open-source OpenDocument Format (ODF), which was already a ratified ISO standard.
[December 3, 2008, 11:11]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office
Talkback There's a comment in the document about StarOffice 7.0 having poor support for Microsoft Office formats. Many other reviews have highlighted the fact that StarOffice is able to read and save in MS formats with almost 90% accuracy.
[June 24, 2004, 0:32]
Graphviz
Downloads The Macintosh port of the "open-source" automated graph layout software, featuring a new document-based GUI, export to PDF and many more bitmap formats, full alpha transparency, native font support and anti-aliasing.
[December 11, 2009, 0:45]
ISO approval 'unlikely for Microsoft Open XML'
News There is a seventy percent probability that ISO will not approve multiple XML document formats, according to a research note published by Gartner last week. Microsoft submitted its Office Open XML file formats to the European standards body ECMA...
[May 16, 2006, 12:55]
TiBR Pro
Downloads Three formats supported (PalmDoc, zTXT and plain text) VFS support (can read books directly from the memory card) Bookmarks support Text search and copy support Third-party dictionaries support (RoadLingua, SlovoEd) User profiles Adjustable tool...
[October 3, 2004, 8:00]
