September 1, 2006
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We won’t be seeing it until early 2007, but Adobe is hard at work on bringing Flash Player 9 to Linux. In a series of recent blog postings, Adobe’s lead engineer on the Flash Player team, Mike Melanson, has been … Continue reading
June 15, 2006
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Only a few weeks after releasing its first Linux application — the photo editing program, Picasa — Google has released its second application for Linux: Google Earth for Linux 4. Unlike Picasa, however, which runs with its own bundled copy … Continue reading
May 26, 2006
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Google and CodeWeavers Inc. have released the first Google program, the popular beginner-level photography program, Picasa, for Linux. Although the Linux Picasa implementation includes most of the feature set of the Windows Picasa 2.x software. It is not, strictly speaking, … Continue reading
May 16, 2006
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The Intermediate Draft 1.3 of Microsoft’s Open XML office document standard has been released by Ecma International, a European standards organization. At 4,000 plus pages, a 6.7MB Microsoft Word document, the Open XML draft standard is less of a standard … Continue reading
March 6, 2006
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In an interview with Australian online technology newspaper IT Wire, Alan Yates, general manager of business strategy for Microsoft’s information worker group, said that OpenOffice.org is about where MS-Office was 10 years ago. That is to say, Microsoft seems to … Continue reading
February 13, 2006
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Google and CodeWeavers Inc. are working together to bring Google’s popular Windows Picasa photo editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program is successful, other Google applications will be following … Continue reading