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Format Wars – Return of the Jedi – RELOADED – Come to your senses Microsoft

OH HAPPY DAY!!! I’m very happy, relieved and surprised: Microsoft Office Open XML (MSOOXML) has FAILED – yes that is F-A-I-L-E-D – to win approval at the vote in the International Organisation for Standardisation – ISO. Microsoft is in “Neverland”, and sort of claims victory, and their official press release is titled “Strong Global Support […]

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“Format wars”: CW – Bliver det uafgjort mellem ODF og Open XML?

(opdateret: 8-Jun-2007: 20:57) Bølgerne går for tiden lidt højt i den danske verden for alt der er “åbent og frit”, og det skyldes en artikel i ComputerWorld. Artiklen er baseret på et møde om dokument formater, arrangeret af DKUUG, SLUUG og KLID (danske foreninger/interessegrupper der bla. arbejder med åbne standarder, undertegnede er på DKUUGs mailinglister). […]

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‘Format Wars’: Computerworld – Politikere fristede af OpenDocument

Computerworld – Politikere fristede af OpenDocument Rambøll er barslet med en rapport der forsøger at estimere omkostningerne ved at indføre Office Open XML og Open Document Format i centraladministrationen. Link til rapporten: Estimering af omkostningerne ved indføre Office Open XML og Open Document Format i centraladministrationen Citat fra Computerworlds artikel. Flere partier ser positivt på […]

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Format Wars: OpenXML Developer

OpenXML Developer OpenXML Developer is a web-site dedicated to developers of OpenXML applications. The OpenXML format is Microsoft’s proposed open document format standard. OpenXML will become the default file-format for the next version of Microsoft Office, Office 12 or Office 2007. OpenXML, or “Office 2003 reference schemas” is often seen as a strategic move by […]

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Net Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

In the beginning the digital world was a big wasteland, with scattered oases. These oases were called Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes), driven by “crazy” people that spent their savings on dial-up connections, so they could provide support for a local BBS oasis. Episode IV: A new hope And it was relatively quiet for a long […]

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Hjælp med at skabe “min” Linuxforum 2006 Birds of a Feather session om åbne standarder

Birds of a Feather Birds of a feather flock together; and so will pigs and swine. Rats and mice will have their choice; and so will I have mine. Så er der ikke ret længe til jeg “står” for Linuxforum 2006 BoF sessionen om åbne standarder, og du kan være med til at skabe, altså […]

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Happy Fifth Blogaversary – I brought the noise!

Yesterday the 15th of February 2009, marked the fifth year of me being a blogger. Technically I’ve had an Internet presence since 1999, but it’s the moment when I started using the service “blogger”, I count as the beginning of my “career” as a blogger. My first real blogpost was a short “review” of the […]

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Welcome to Writely – Writely has reopened, but I need a true NFS!

Welcome to Writely Since Writely was acquired by Google earlier this year, it has been closed for new sign-ups. Having finished moving to the Google infrastructure, Writely has just reeoped and is again accepting new sign-ups. So what’s the fuzz about. Writely is a web-based Word processor, that allows for online collaboration on documents, and […]