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Microsoft has already announced that it will make Office 2007 Service Pack 2 play nice with a range of file formats and standards including XPS, PDF, and ODF. In this regard, on December 16, 2008, the Redmond company has published the ODF 1.1 Implementer Notes for Office 2007 SP2. In this manner, Doug Mahugh, a senio... |
16 December 2008
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With Open XML now ISO certified, Microsoft continues to pour efforts into the standard in order to ensure interoperability between document format implementations and across different platforms. An example of the success of the Document Interoperability Initiative, launched in March 2008, is the fact that Open XML no... |
3 December 2008
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Microsoft has yet to wrap up with the distribution of Office 2007 SP1, and is already looking ahead to the next service pack, in a move designed to offer additional choices for end users but also to take interoperability to the next level, in terms of the company's flagship productivity suite. Office 2007 Servic... |
22 May 2008
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The OpenXML document format creates a bridge over the gap between Windows and Linux by opening new opportunities for Linux programmers to create documents in a Windows-friendly format, and more. Novell's Open Office edition supports OpenXML and even Corel have started supporting this format, changing the things ... |
17 September 2007
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Microsoft aims to spread its Office 2007 System love all around. And the Redmond company will stop at nothing in order to do so. The fact of the matter is that behind the international standardization process of the Open XML file format is a strategy to completely overshadow OpenOffice with the Office 2007 System. In... |
4 September 2007
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Office Open XML, the default document format of the Office 2007 System, is leading the adoption of XML-based standards in both Europe and the United States, according to an IDC survey commissioned by Microsoft. The Redmond company applauded the fact that Open XML is the dominant XML standard taking the wind out of Op... |
28 August 2007
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The Malaysian Administration Modernization and Management Planning Unit inside the Malaysian Government has recently expressed its interest in adopting the Open Document Format. It seems that the Malaysian Government is also interested in migrating to the open source standards, at least regarding the public sector.T... |
16 August 2007
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Microsoft will stop at nothing to drive the ratification of Open XML (the native file format of the Office 2007System) as an international standard. In this sense, the Redmond Company is gathering additional support for the Ecma Open XML-Open Document Format Translator Project from the Linux side of the trenches. Mic... |
10 July 2007
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Sun ODF Plugin 1.0 for Microsoft Office has gone live and is available for download immediately. Sun informed that not only is the plugin free, but that it also brings to the table Support and Service contracts. Sun ODF Plugin 1.0 is just one example out of a long line of solutions for the Office Suite designed to de... |
6 July 2007
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Linspire is one of the open source distributors, along with Novell and Xandros, to jump on Microsoft's Windows - Linux interoperability and software assurance wagon. Linspire is the maker of a distribution of Linux having the same name as the company, but formerly named Lindows, a trademark over which Microsoft ... |
2 July 2007
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Following the intense efforts to establish the Open XML file format as an international standard, and to directly rival OpenOffice's Open Document Format, Microsoft has debuted an initiative designed to take the XML Paper Specification (XPS) through the same process and offer an alternative to Adobe's Porta... |
2 July 2007
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Microsoft has a conflicting relationship with OpenOffice. After last week's patent infringement allegations, the Redmond Company now delivers additional support for the open source productivity suite. Via SourceForge.net - Microsoft's open source project - the company has made available for download the bet... |
21 May 2007
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Microsoft has revealed the fact that it has cast a positive vote in support of the addition of OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.0 to the nonexclusive American National Standards list, after on Monday, it accused free and open source software, including Linux and OpenOffice, of violating no less than 235 of its patents. Mi... |
17 May 2007
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According to a press release, Norway has decided to make the government use of ODF (respectively PDF) mandatory. This recommendation was first made by the Minister of Renewal Heidi Grande Roys, on behalf of the Cabinet-appointed Norwegian Standards Council and implies the use of the two formats in all agencies and se... |
15 May 2007
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And so the ODF - OOXML battle rages on. Microsoft has stepped up the pace in its pursuit of the OpenDoc Format, with a positive decision on its behalf from the International Standards Organization (ISO). OOXML could be ratified as an international standard in the second half of this year. By the end of August 2007, t... |
12 March 2007
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