Office 2007
30 Similarities between Microsoft Office PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress
by Solveig Haugland, June 2008
This is another article in my series showing the similarities
between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office (pre-Office 2007).
Using a new product requires some re-learning. That’s unavoidable. But you rarely have to learn an entirely new set of skills – it’s just that the new stuff sticks out at us. This article is to [...]
Dual Standards: More Choice, or Less?
Via ODFalliance.org blog
Arguments are often made that having two internationally-approved standards for document formats would encourage choice. After all, isn’t competition good? South Africa’s Minister of Public Service and Administration, Ms. Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi addressed this issue from the perspective of governments in her opening address at the Idlelo 3 Conference currently underway in Dakar, Senegal:
“South [...]
OOXML Implementations: A Community of One?
The ODFalliance.org now has a new OOXML Resource Section. You will find the complete text from “OOXML Implementations: A Community of One” [PDF] below.
If anything, the ODF Alliance analysis is too charitable. OOXML is NOT CLOSE TO a community of one. Documents produced by Microsoft Office 2007 are not OOXML (Ecma 376), DIS 29500, or [...]
A Deluge of Facts KOs OOXML (Office Open XML)
Microsoft’s position is hardening as the ISO vote on OOXML (DIS 29500) in Geneva approaches at the end of this month. We know more clearly now how Microsoft and its proxy group, ECMA, will position Microsoft’s OOXML specification in advance of the vote. In short, Microsoft is betting that its influence with National Bodies will [...]
