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Microsoft office
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25 January 2012
Computing in Schools: The Great Ctrl-Alt-Del
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After years of unforgivable inaction, the education world is finally addressing the continuing disgrace that is computer teaching in this ...
16 November 2010
Will Mark Zuckerberg Prove He's Open Source's BFF?
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Although I don't use it much myself, I've heard that Facebook is quite popular in some quarters. This makes its technological moves ...
14 October 2010
Microsoft Gives its Blessing to OpenOffice.org
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On the 13 April 1999, a press release appeared headed “Mindcraft study shows Windows NT server outperforms Linux.” The summary read: “Micros...
22 September 2010
Opening up Computer Studies in the UK
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One of the biggest disgraces in this country is the way that computing is taught - or rather, the way it is not taught. I know as a parent f...
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06 January 2009
The (Intellectual Monopoly) Biter Bit
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The author of a proposed Chilean law to fight copyright infringement was greeted with the warning message "This copy of Microsoft Offic...
27 November 2008
Vladivostok Gives Free GNU/Linux Netbooks
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I've written before about the increasing uptake of, and innovation around, free software in Russia. Here's another fascinating exp...
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12 June 2008
The Subtle Art of Open Source Migrations
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On Open Enterprise blog .
25 April 2008
Microsoft on the Rocks?
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Hardly, with a quarterly profit of $4.39 billion, but this is interesting : Sales in the division selling Office and other business applicat...
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18 April 2008
OpenOffice.org Storms Away – on the Continent
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On Open Enterprise blog .
28 January 2008
Coincidence, Or...?
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Ha! PLIO, the volunteer association behind the Italian version of OpenOffice.org, underlines the incredible and funny coincidence between th...
23 November 2007
Live Documents and Let Live Documents
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It's not really clear whether we need yet another online office suite, but at least Live Documents seems to have understood the import...
24 September 2007
The Everex Effect
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Following extensive product testing, Everex had taken the innovative step of including OpenOffice.org software on a range of PCs for sale th...
18 September 2007
IBM's Symphony Bolsters the ODF Choir
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Goodness knows why it has taken so long, but IBM finally seems to have woken up to the fact that throwing all its weight behind ODF is much...
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13 September 2007
The Ultimate Steal - or the Ultimate Fire-Sale?
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Beginning Sept. 12, Microsoft will launch a special Web-based promotion exclusively for students called The Ultimate Steal. Students who are...
10 July 2007
Microsoft, China, Piracy, the Future
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Sometimes the truth will out in the most surprising contexts. Like here, in this article about Microsoft's growing success in China: T...
06 July 2007
Decoupling Software and Standards
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As you may have noticed, there is a big bust-up over office file formats going on at the moment. On the one hand, we have ODF, which is a c...
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12 June 2007
Great, Microsoft - But What About the Commons?
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Photosynth is undoubtedly amazing. But this video indicates that it's even more powerful than previously suggested; specifically, it ...
30 April 2007
Google Supports ODF
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Well, it already does with its online office suite, but now it lets you search for ODF files and displays converted online: In addition to ...
19 April 2007
Microsoft Embraces (Nearly) Free Software
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost bundle of Office and Windows, one of several new initiat...
12 February 2007
A Doubly-Poisoned Chalice?
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I'm not sure about this : Probably most of you have heard or read about Novell's effort to provide VBA support in OpenOffice.org for...
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