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Open Office vs. MS Office - the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition
Blog Comment I have been using MS Word for over a decade. In fact, my version is so old, Office 1997, that I have taken advantage of the MS Office 2007 free three month trial. Jamie, I completely agree with you. I have to say that the changes to Word over a...
[August 15, 2008, 17:13]
ms lover my opinion
Talkback i protest we live in a world were we have the right to express our views its called, freedom of speech and all i,ve said about ms.is true and i,m only ,giving [constructive crititism] for those interested [now] wait a mo bill gates[my freind] has...
[October 24, 2009, 12:42]
MS-BS Quotient Off the top of the Charts.
Talkback Assuming you haven't loaded ANY software at all, like MS Office 2007 say, yes you can get the system to boot from hibernation in very few seconds. Those numbers touting an 11 second boot time are from HIBERNATION files.
[September 7, 2009, 11:32]
MS Office 2007 does fully support OOXML
Talkback MS Office 2007 produces a very good implementation of OOXML. In fact he immplementation of MS Office 2007 of OOXML is a lot better than any existing implementation of ODF. MS Office 2007 implementation of OOXML is may not 100% perfect which...
[February 28, 2008, 12:48]
MS Office 2007 DOES write OOXML as its default format
Talkback Of course MS Office 2007 default format is OOXML. It has XML schema which allow XML dation so you can actually verify that MS Office does support OOXML very well. [quote]Office 2007 can read OOXML (so it is said), but certainly can't write it.
[February 28, 2008, 19:19]
File Formats - MS v OpenOffice
Talkback For older versions of MS formats Microsoft made the National Archives (UK) use Vista running Windows Virtual PC running Windows 3.11 running Office 95 (which all require licences per machine). OpenDocument (ODT), Open Office (SXW), MS Word 6.0/95...
[January 29, 2008, 17:13]
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]
Another pointless "10 reasons" MS knocking article
Talkback Actually those people that ignored the press and MS knocking forums and used Vista in real life actually liked it. People are still on Vista because they got scared off Vista and MS made a mess of the launch.
[October 9, 2009, 17:56]
MS Essentials
Talkback One snag is at the PC's initial 'log in' it does take a wee while longer than usual, since MS Essentials was installed. About time though that MS brought out simple and Free software for all users to use.
[October 7, 2009, 9:03]
MS OS Running Your Home? Be Afraid!
Talkback I saw some of the CE show demos and was gobsmacked by the idea anyone would allow MS Windows to run a house? Not an MS way of working. MS have not the first idea of resilient integrated systems, their OS can barely hang together for a decent...
[January 10, 2007, 15:40]
MS-Windows only
Member Review This product depends on an active-x applet, and is therefore MS-Windows only. If you happen to be in a MS-Windows environment and if you do not manage the images and video yourself (e.g.place the image on a website), this can be a nice camera.
[December 19, 2006, 13:07]
MS Lock in
Talkback Systems that you can only access if your using MS operating systems is probably closer to the real reason for this technologies existence. MS has always tried to create lock in to leverage the spread of their other products and this sounds no...
[April 22, 2009, 20:35]
MS Audio 4.0 will eat MP3...
News Security is what the music industry is looking for, so obviously MS Audio is important. I compared an MP3 file created in Xing software recorded at low/normal VBR mode and compared it to a 32Kbit MS Audio file.
[April 14, 1999, 15:36]
Securing Your Microsoft Internet Information Services (MS IIS) Web Server with a thawte Digital Certificate
White Papers This guide will explain the various ways in which your business can benefit if you secure your MS IIS server with a Thawte digital certificate. Learn how you can build customer confidence around Internet security.
[March 5, 2009, 9:30]
MS Word Extract E-Mail Addresses from Multiple Fil
Downloads If you want to know how to extract e-mail addresses from multiple ms word documents/files, then this software is for you! With this software, you can Easily select a number of ms word documents to get the e-mail addresses from.
[July 3, 2008, 12:33]
MS no longer have 'tie-ins' with Windows, the new 'tie-in' in town is IE8
Talkback MS ties Internet Explorer (for free) into Windows 95 (Windows Desktop Update), IE becomes part of the standard interface as part of Windows 98. MS ties Windows Media Player (for free) into Windows. Europe Union force MS to release a Version of XP...
[March 23, 2009, 21:51]
MS .doc bug hibernates on Net
News The Google search engine reports that there are over half a million MS Word .doc files presently available for download from dot-com Web sites. US Government Web sites also appear vulnerable to these potential legacy leaks with some 240,000 MS Word...
[May 7, 2002, 14:33]
MS and Mozilla make deal on RSS
Talkback MS no longer has the clout to pull this off single handledly. Interesting.
[December 18, 2005, 0:50]
MS stays behind.
Talkback People are getting smarter and are looking beyond MS products for solutions. Microsoft started out behind and remain so. Apple innovates, Microsoft imitates. They buy up companies and claim their IP, turning it into a Microsoft product.
[January 10, 2008, 3:29]
MS Open-Source/Proprietary Hybrid
Talkback They can host all the other "stuff" on MS Live and offer it for reasonable subscription prices. If I had one, I'd bet you a nickel Microsoft could whip out a version of MS Office 2010 that would work just fine on Ubuntu, SUSE or Red Hat.
[July 23, 2009, 10:21]
