That is what we can conclude from Stuart McKee’s statement. It sure sounds nice! Unfortunately, it does hardly anything for the divide created because of ODF and OOXML. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsThat is what we can conclude from Stuart McKee’s statement. It sure sounds nice! Unfortunately, it does hardly anything for the divide created because of ODF and OOXML. [Continue]
MS Office 2007 will have native support for ODF, meaning much more and beyond the import and export facilities. Microsoft’s OOXML has been already accepted has a standard, so this announcement seemed a little out of place, especially because ODF and PDF get support from Office before OOXML does. It is definitely good from an interoperability perspective, and it is commendable that Microsoft has started to think of path towards its interoperability promise. [Continue]
Mayank Sharma reports that Microsoft is trying to promote OOXML to the Indian ministry through NGOs. Deja vu? Microsoft says that it was a voluntary decision for the partners. [Continue]
A good news from Microsoft for the standards world. There was a rebel from the developers community when IE8 announced that the default mode would not be standards mode, unless it was told to do so through a special tag. Microsoft has paid heed to the developer community and reversed this behavior. [Continue]
Microsoft announced that it is ready to change to make its tools more interoperable, or as it says expand the interoperability. Is Microsoft serious about open source interoperability? I think it is yet another announcement to keep the buzz alive, and it is not only me who thinks so. [Continue]
Microsoft is trying to woo the students by offering its development tools for free (via Slashdot). Called DreamSpark, the offering is open to too all students across the globe. Microsoft hopes that this will create users for Microsoft’s tools, and possibly eat into the open source user base. [Continue]
When a popular tool deviates from the standards, a lot of development using it deviates too. And that is what happened with IE 6, and a lot of sites developed to work around its deviations. So much so that, the deviations from the standards were very close to becoming the new standards themselves. [Continue]
A while back the OpenDocument Foundation folded up, withdrawing its support for the ODF in favor of CDF. The reason for the switch is buried in the details of ODF community’s denial to be fully interoperable with Microsoft Office, which might have helped in migrating to ODF without affecting the processes. So, there was something bigger here playing it up. [Continue]
Microsoft finally shows some support for open source, without any controversy or doubt hovering around it. As Matt Assay notes that the Windows Marketplace is hosting open source software. And this time it is open for all. [Continue]
Recently a UK agency warned the schools against deals with Microsoft. Problem is the way Microsoft is licensing the software being sold. In the recent times Microsoft has moved towards leasing than selling, so that their revenue keeps building up by that single sale. [Continue]
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