Tag Archives: adoption

IBM’s Stance Against OpenXML Is Increasingly Confusing

Posted on January 25, 2008 by oliver

According to Wikipedia the term FUD was first defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl Corp.: “FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instil in the minds of potential … Continue reading →

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A Closer Look At Those “Single Standard” Policy Mandates

Posted on January 23, 2008 by oliver

The ODF Alliance published a report on 20th December last year that puzzled me a little. The document talked about the steps that governments globally are taking in the debate around XML based document formats, and specifically tried to outline a … Continue reading →

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OpenXML Accessibility, The Burton Group Favouring OpenXML, Final Set Of Proposed Dispositions

Posted on January 16, 2008 by oliver

It has been a busy week on the OpenXML front, I have been travelling for the last few days and have just spent the last 30 minutes trying to catch up on the long list in my inbox. Three of … Continue reading →

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Over 20 Million Successful Downloads Of The Open XML Compatibility Pack

Posted on December 21, 2007 by oliver

The compatibility pack comes up in conversation pretty frequently these days, in past years when Microsoft has upgraded to a new file format users of older versions of office products have had to deal with some well document issues when … Continue reading →

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Haansoft Announces Support For Both OpenXML and ODF

Posted on December 18, 2007 by oliver

Earlier this week Korea’s largest producer of Office Automation software announced that they will support both Open XML and ODF in the next version of their product. This is extremely significant for Korean users of Haansoft’s Hangul package, where as … Continue reading →

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DAISY gives an answer…

Posted on November 14, 2007 by oliver

You might have caught a story in the press today about a translator project that Microsoft and the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium are establishing on SourceForge that will provide both some new functionality in Microsoft Office along with … Continue reading →

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Office Migration Planning Manager

Posted on October 5, 2007 by oliver

Doug Mahugh has a short post this morning that highlights some resources for the “Office Migration Planning Manager” on Channel 9. This is a great set of tools for anybody looking at mass migration of their older binary office files … Continue reading →

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Inchone adopts Open XML for e-Learning

Posted on October 1, 2007 by oliver

Back in July Inchone, an e-Learning company based in Singapore, announced that they were going to add Open XML support to their e-Learning products. In their announcement they talk about some of the advantages that they will garner through the … Continue reading →

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