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  1. Re:Instead of asking Slashdot by rominnoodle · · Score: 1 · on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3?

    I agree completely with this approach. The feedback from your users could provide you the insight on technical aspects not thought of before.

    If you do decide to take the plunge, googling transition to open office yields a few articles:

    Author Solveig Haugland offers a "virtual guide" to switching
    http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/switching-office-suites-from-microsoft-office-to-openofficeorg.html
    Difference between Impress and Powerpoint
    http://www.linux.com/articles/40736
    Five principles of a successful OO transition
    http://www.k12opentech.org/solveig-haugland/2008/02/24/five-principles-successful-openofficeorg-transition

    There is probably a slew of articles on this topic out there, just do the research.

  2. A successful transition to OpenOffice.org by solveig · · Score: 1 · on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3?

    Hi PtP, Your transition can go fine, you just need to do a lot of planning. In nine years of training and consulting, I've seen successful and unsuccessful transitions. Here's my article on it. Here's the angle for an individual transition. http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/switching-office-suites-from-microsoft-office-to-openofficeorg.html Here's the angle for a team transition. http://www.k12opentech.org/solveig-haugland/2008/02/24/five-principles-successful-openofficeorg-transition Essentially you need support (read: 100% commitment) from the top, lots of piloting and planning, and accepting that yes, your PowerPoint stuff might not look as good but that's OK. Solveig Haugland http://www.getopenoffice.org/ http://openoffice.blogs.com/

  3. No MS OOXML for typing this shopping list... by christian.einfeldt · · Score: 0, Troll · on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts
    Because even Microsoft has had trouble implementing Microsoft OOXML. So much for using an implementation Microsoft OOXML to type up that grocery list. So much for truly open XML standards.

    And while Microsoft is tying its solution to someone else's shopping cart, Apple is planning on letting you carry your shopping list with you on your own device, and just pointing it at stuff to buy it. No annoying advertising there, and it is not tied to one store or one chain of stores:

    Customers with a ShopRite loyalty card will be able to log into a Web site at home and type in their grocery lists; when they get to the store and swipe their card on the MediaCart console, the list will appear. As shoppers scan their items and place them in their cart, the console gives a running price tally and checks items off the shopping list.
    Disloyal customers, such as those running GNU Linux, will be shown the door, or barred from entering the store in the first place. Imagine not being able to shop for food because you don't use Microsoft Windows. No thanks. I don't want any viruses in my food or my shopping list.
  4. Office 2007 not even compliant by Bayesela · · Score: 5, Interesting · on RTF Vs. OOXML

    On top of OOXML being developed in a closed environment, MS Office is not even using the proposed ECMA or ISO spec, they including all types of tie-ins. This article explains more: not even compliant

  5. Re:Now the waiting game... by wtansill · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality
    1. Is it now? Odd, how MS only came up with its new proposed standard after they were told they no longer qualified in MA due to that state's adoption of the Enterprise Technical Resource Model (ETRM). This may have been overturned by now, but was the root cause of OOXML's hasty introduction in the first place.
    2. ODF is a standard that can be freely implemented by any vendor. Please describe the nature of any patent encumbrance you believe exists.
    3. Didn't know about Apple, but Novel is a rather special case, don't you think, given that they caved to the MS bogeyman that claims all manner of patent infringement by FOSS. Despite which they won't actually tell anyone what patents are supposedly infringed. Smells like FUD spreading to me.
    4. I refer you to an excellent article on the MS deprecation smokescreen: http://fanaticattack.com/2007/the-deprecated-smoke-screen-of-ms-office-open-xml-ooxml.html/ It seems the Office 2007 can't even save its own documents in the format described by the OOXML document. I leave you to draw your own conclusions as to just what that says about the "standard".
    While my wife might agree with the "pompous" accusation, I'm fairly certain she'd disagree with the cunt part. I did not, BTW, label you with any sort of tawdry moniker ("pompous cunt" being one such). I'd appreciate it if you'd refrain from that sort of thing as well, or your "karma" might just fade away on its own...
  6. But will they release source code... by christian.einfeldt · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Microsoft Opens Its Security Research Cookbooks
    ...in exchange for all of the help that they get? Probably not. Seeing that most developers want their free labor to at least result in open source code, I can't imagine that this effort is going to be all that popular with the best developers.

    Microsoft likes to throw around the word "open" a lot these days, but most smart people in the industry remain skeptical. Take, for example, what open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver has to say about Microsoft's supposed open OOXML format:

    The legacy binary formats remain closed. If a file is one which was converted from an older format of Microsoft Office by DIS29500 and allowed to wrap the old file in xml, it remains unreadable for everyone else. OOXML is still a closed spec tied into to many proprietary formats.
    So how open is open? Unless the code is considered open under OSI standards or Free under FSF guidelines, it's really still just a pig with lipstick and a dress.