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
March 1, 2006
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Oh! My aching head. When I first saw ExtremeTech’s Why Windows Vista Won’t Suck, I thought: “Aha, sarcasm.” Nope. I was wrong. They really were saying that Vista is pretty good. Oh please. First, let me say, I’ve been running … Continue reading
January 12, 2006
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reaffirmed a pair of patents held by Microsoft covering the File Allocation Table, but sources close to the Public Patent Foundation indicate that this will not be the end of the … Continue reading
November 10, 2005
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IBM, Sony Corp., Philips N.V. and Linux distributors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. announced Thursday that the companies would be forming a new company—Open Invention Network—to share Linux patents without charging for royalties. OIN’s (Open Invention Network) plan will … Continue reading
March 23, 2005
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The Cold War policy of MAD was that things could never get too ugly between the United States and the Soviet Union because if one of us went too far, the other could bomb it into the stone age … … Continue reading