Is Windows XP too good for Microsoft’s own good?
On September 27, Microsoft has extended the cut-off as to when PC makers will be allowed to continue to sell Windows XP with new machines.
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29.9.2007 Microsoft to Increasingly Open up on Office 14 and Windows 7
There is a time for translucency, and there is also a time for transparency.
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11.7.2008 Microsoft submits Open Source Office XML to ECMA
As reported by the
TheServerSide.net, Microsoft has submitted the beta 1 findings to the ECMA International board for standardization in hopes of gaining international standardization.
In an interview with a fellow Microsoft employee, Robert Scoble, interviewer for the MSDN developer community Channel 9, talks with Jean Paoli about the submission. Mr. Paoli explains the process after Robert asks if the XML is really open source.
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27.11.2005 OpenOffice is definitely good enough
There is a reason that the OpenOffice.org 3.0 servers are struggling to keep up with demand.
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14.10.2008 Vista's Transparency Is Good News
eWEEK visits with Jim Allchin, head of Microsoft Windows development, to discuss strategy for the new operating system.
I will start by stating flatly that I like Jim Allchin, who runs Microsoft Windows development. A lot. When he retires at the end of the year, the company will have lost one of its all-time great technology leaders and a very decent guy.
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29.1.2006 Is Google going to make Microsoft look good?
Why do we like Google? Is it because they are the “do no evil” company? Is it because they are not Microsoft? Is it because they make our lives easier through their search, email, and other services? The fact of the matter is that a lot of people from users, to developers, to workers, and to investors like Google. Heck, even I like google! (Look at the ads.)
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3.8.2006 There Is a Good Reason to Get Vista SP1
Microsoft plans to do away with that nasty 30-day off switch. Maybe some IT organizations should rejoice and take a few darts out of their pictures of Bill Gates.
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4.12.2007 Very Good Results in Updating Vista Against Hacks and Cracks
Microsoft claims that it has seen what the company referred to as very good results in fighting Windows piracy with Windows Vista, although it has failed to elaborate on the subject.
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29.7.2008 Microsoft: a "Good Enough" Windows 7 Beta with Room for Refinement
Microsoft is in no rush to deliver the first beta of Windows 7. Even according to the official time table for the delivery of Windows Vista's successor, the Redmond company is just a few months short of the final deadline, and yet there is no Beta on the immediate horizon.
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5.9.2008 Microsoft: a Good Enough Windows 7 Beta with Room for Refinement
Microsoft is in no rush to deliver the first beta of Windows 7. Even according to the official time table for the delivery of Windows Vista's successor, the Redmond company is just a few months short of the final deadline, and yet there is no Beta on the immediate horizon.
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8.9.20008 Windows XP Departs: Good Riddance or Sad Farewell?
Two of PC World's most opinionated editors weigh in on whether Microsoft Windows XP's departure is bad for PC users or the best thing that could happen to computing.
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27.6.2008 Microsoft: Good Reception of Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801
Microsoft revealed that it was happy with the way Windows 7 was received at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles, at the end of October.
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17.11.2008 Open Source PSP
Is the PSP becoming an open source platform? If so, is this good for its game functionality and Sonys profits Business Week writes: For every new Firmware update, hackers have advised doing just the opposite downgrading to older, low-security software they posted on the Net.
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11.12.2005 Open source hardware, what is it?
Open source hardware is a term we've used here on MAKE & CRAFT for describing some of the projects featured as well as some of our electronics kits and it was the subject of a talk we participated in at then SXSW conference, but what is it?
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24.4.2007 Open Source at Microsoft
Today, Microsoft took another step in its relationship with the open source software community. We did this by bringing up a new web property that clearly outlines Microsoft’s position on OSS by providing specific information about Microsoft, the OSS community and the interaction between the two.
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27.7.2007 Microsoft: Open source is too complex
Although open-source software can be customized to meet a company's specific needs, its inherent complexity could dent the profitability of independent software vendors (ISVs), says Microsoft.
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7.8.2006 Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight
Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 next week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
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29.4.2007 Open Letter to Steve Ballmer
Steve, I've heard you're making a tough decision about Yahoo. I know what you should do. It's time to step back and walk away. Yahoo's not worth the trouble. If you force an acquisition, your legacy will be mud not Mesh.
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2.5.2008 Open Letter from Steve Jobs
The August 2006 appearance, one of Jobs' 'weakest'
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In what is one of the most surprising moves from Apple's CEO this year, Steve Jobs has posted an open letter to the Apple Community, admitting health issues had to do with his not attending the Macworld Expo this year.
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6.1.2009 Microsoft as Open-Source Interop Champion?
Microsoft is beating the open-source interoperability drum, claiming that its Linux Lab is working on numerous projects and partnerships to lessen interoperability problems between Windows and open source. But the company is definitely sending mixed messages on this front.
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17.1.2006 Windows Vista RC1 Open to Public
Those eager to try out the newest release of Windows Vista, which has received positive reviews from analysts and testers alike, can rest easy: RC1 is now available to the general public.
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15.9.2006 How the Windows Vista Packaging will open - photo
Take a look at how the Windows Vista packaging will open up to reveal the media inside. Also, it is our first peak at what the Windows Vista discs will actually look like.
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2.11.2006 Microsoft criticized for Open XML petition
An online petition posted by Microsoft to fast-track the standardization of its Office Open XML document format masks the company's concern over the procedure, according to a leading open-source advocate.
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5.4.2007 Microsoft Steps Up Open Source Battle
Microsoft continued its battle against open source on Tuesday with the release of yet another company-funded study showing that developers believe the next version of GPL shouldn't cover patent deals.
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23.5.2007 Internet Explorer 7 Is an Open Door for Attacks
Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is nothing short of an open door for attacks. Microsoft informed that it is currently investigating a remote code execution vulnerability in various versions of XP and Windows Server 2003 running Internet Explorer 7.
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15.10.2007 Open APIs May Help Microsoft Repair Reputation
Today's news could, if played correctly, repair the long-held notion in the industry that Microsoft is a proprietary bully that buries anyone who jumps in its sandbox.
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22.2.2008 Microsoft to open Apple-like retail shops
Our sources close to Microsoft have confirmed that the company wants to reach out for the retail market presence. Microsoft wants to open and create many retail shops dedicated exclusive to Microsoft and its products.
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14.4.2008 Microsoft open Vine beta site
The Microsoft Vine Beta connects you to the people and places you care about most, when it matters. Stay in touch with family and friends, be informed when someone needs help. Get involved to create great communities. Use alerts, reports and your personal dashboard to stay in touch, informed and involved.
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28.4.2009 Winpooch - Open source anti-spyware for windows
Description: detection of spywares and trojans. It becomes an anti virus if associated with ClamWin
Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time. Associated with ClamWin antivirus, Winpooch keeps safe your computer against virus.
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6.12.2005 More information on the Open XML translator and some questions answered
There were a lot of great comments from last week's announcement about the creation of an open source project to transform between the Ecma Office Open XML formats and the OASIS OpenDocument format.
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12.7.2006Novell OpenOffice to Support
Microsoft Office Open XML
One of the major contributors
to the leading open source
alternative to the Microsoft
Office Suite announced early
this morning it will be
offering additions to
OpenOffice enabling it to
support Office 2007's new
XML-based Office Open XML
format...
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04.12.2006Office Open XML Support for Mac Delayed
Mac users will have to wait a
bit longer if they wish to
read or edit documents created
with the new Open XML formats
in Office 2007. Microsoft has
delayed an update for Office
2004 for Mac until two months
after the release of Office
2008 for Mac...
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16.05.2007Massachusetts Declares Office Open XML 'Suitable' Format
In what could be Microsoft's
most symbolic victory to date
in the battle to legitimize
the principal formats used by
its Office applications, the
State of Massachusetts
officially declared Office
Open XML -- the new standard
format set in Office 2007 --
"another standardized
XML-based file format
specification suitable for
office applications."..
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03.07.2007MS Open XML, ODF Converter Finished
The open source project to
build a translator between
Microsoft's new Office Open
XML format and OpenDocument,
the standard backed by OASIS,
reached its first milestone
Friday, releasing 1.0 of the
technology for both Microsoft
Word and competing
ODF-compatible office suites...
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03.02.2007Microsoft Claims It's Format-Agnostic in Appeal to Chinese Office Users
Microsoft revealed that it had
launched a project with
Beijing's Beihang University
to create an open-source,
two-way translator between
China's Uniform Office Format
and the Office 2007 Open XML
file formats, just two weeks
after Sun's chairman called
for UOF and OpenDocument
Format to be merged...
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21.05.2007Zoho joins the supporting ranks of Office Open XML
Online word processing and document collaboration suite Zoho Writer received an update which has made it compatible with Microsoft's Office Open XML
file format...
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29.02.2008Mass. to Dump Microsoft Office by 2007
Massachusetts is moving forward with a plan to transition from proprietary document formats to XML-based open standards. But the latest draft of the proposal includes one notable change: Microsoft Office is no longer considered an open format and thus is not sanctioned for use...
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01.09.20052007 Office System SDK: Open XML Format SDK 2.0
Open XML is an open ECMA 376 standard and is also approved as the ISO/IEC 29500 standard that defines a set of XML schemas for representing
spreadsheets, charts, presentations, and word processing documents. Microsoft Office Word® 2007, Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, and Microsoft Office
PowerPoint® 2007 all use Open XML as the default file format.
The Open XML file formats are useful for developers because they
use an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML.
The Open XML Format SDK 2.0 is built on top of the
System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents. The SDK also uses the .NET Framework
Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) technology to provide strongly typed object access to the XML content inside the parts of Open XML documents.
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06.09.2008Microsoft looks to open source for Office
Microsoft and European open-source firm
Sourcesense have signed a deal to work together on developing open-source software for the software giant's Office suite.
The companies will initially work to develop Apache POI libraries supporting Office Open XML file formats. Apache POI is an
open-source file format reader and writer used to edit Microsoft Office formats used in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio.
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26.03.2008Windows Mobile gets Office 2007 format support
Version 6.1 of Office Mobile finally brings support for Microsoft's Open Office XML document formats, over a year after Office 2007 was released to
businesses...
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04.12.2007Mass. Pleased with
Microsoft's Progress
Microsoft's decision to
submit its forthcoming Office
Open XML format to European
standards organization Ecma
International seems to have
done the trick: Massachusetts
says it expects the new
version of Microsoft Office to
meet its "open format"
requirement...
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28.11.2005Office Open XML Gains ECMA Approval; IBM Votes No
Citing major collaborative
contributions from a dozen
companies and institutions,
including Novell, Apple,
Intel, the British Library,
and the US Library of
Congress, the Ecma
International standards body
today approved what will now
be called Ecma Open XML -
formerly Microsoft's
"Office Open XML" - as
an international standard for
document formatting...
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08.12.2006Office Live Add-in for Microsoft Office Available, Workspace Beta soon?
Yesterday Microsoft posted an Office Live Add-in for Microsoft Office at its download site,
here. The
description of the download says it will add new menu option to Office so you can open and save your office documents directly from Microsoft Office
to your Office Live Workspace.
This is probably a pretty good indicator that
Office Live Workspace is going to kick of a beta before too long. If you are interested in this it might be worth
Pre-Registering if you haven't already.
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29.11.2007Microsoft to Support
OpenDocument
In a surprise move, Microsoft
is bending to pressure from
governments and will sponsor
an open source project to
build tools that enable
conversion between its Open
XML formats in Office 2007 and
OpenDocument. The forthcoming
Office suite will also support
an add-in for saving directly
to ODF...
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06.07.2006US Patent Office to Try 'Open Source' Approach
Last week, the US Patent and
Trademark Office announced its
official support of a Web site
whose purpose will be to
encourage citizens to assess
the validity of patent
applications for themselves,
and issue challenges where
necessary. The notice gives
the go-ahead to a New York Law
School project to build an
open-source-like patent review
community...
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12.06.2007Mac Office Open XML Converters on Track
Contrary to what Microsoft
calls "alarmist news
stories," the company is
continuing to work towards
providing Open XML format
converters within the Mac
version of Office, although
their release is not expected
until Spring 2007...
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06.12.2006Microsoft Reports Victory in Preliminary ISO Ballot for Office Open XML
BREAKING NEWS - Early this morning, Microsoft reported it had been notified that its Office Open XML format received a 74% positive vote in a
preliminary ballot that could pave the way for its final ratification as an international standard...
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04.09.2007Microsoft Ups Commitment to Bridge Gaps Between Open Source and Ecma Office Open XML
Major Asian Linux distributor
Turbolinux lends support and
expertise to the Ecma Open
XML-Open Document Format
Translator Project, which
seeks to help maximize
consumer benefits and
technical innovation through
document interoperability...
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10.07.2007ISO to Fast-Track Office Open XML Process
The head of the International
Standards Organization
committee JTC 1 has given her
official approval to giving
consideration to Microsoft's
Office Open XML document
standard under a fast-track
process. This despite some
opposition, though apparently
fewer formal objections than
had earlier been anticipated...
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13.03.2007Sun Releases Own ODF Plug-in for Office
Separate from Microsoft's
efforts to create a translator
that supports Office 2007's
Open XML formats and
OpenDocument, Sun has released
the final 1.0 version of its
own ODF plug-in for Office.
However, Office 2007 is not
yet supported due to what Sun
calls a bug in Microsoft's
newest suite...
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