The Next Chapter for eBooks
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| It appears publishers have no favorites among the current spread of
| eBook formats. "It's true -- publishers do not have a favorite or a
| preference at this point," Steve Potash, CEO of Overdrive and president
| of the International Digital Publishing Forum, told TechNewsWorld. "The
| field is wide open, and Adobe is well-positioned to seize the market."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/58083.html
But wait...
Microsoft and ECMA: Together again, doing it again
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| If you loved OOXML and the way that ECMA did exactly what Microsoft
| wanted, you’ll love the new working group around XPS, Microsoft’s home
| grown competitor to PDF.
|
| [...]
|
| The standard must be compatible with Microsoft’s implementation, which
| is the only implementation. How open. How independent. How collaborative.
| What do you think? Should we just save time and money and let Microsoft
| simply define international standards for us based on what they put
| in their products?
|
| [...]
|
| OOXML was not an anomaly, we now have a pattern. You can either object
| and do something about this, and that includes helping to stop OOXML, or
| else you can wake up one morning and find “international standard”
| being increasingly synonymous with “defined in Redmond, WA.” You have
| a choice.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1699
If this is not about Linux and use of corruption used against it (among
others), then what is? JPEG, HTML, Flash, OpenGL, ODF and many more
cross-platform and royalty-free standards/formats suffer from gross political
manipulation from a desperate and highly aggressive monopoly abuser.
Related:
With XPS as PDF killer, Microsoft opens second front on Adobe
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| Will XPS match or even overthrow PDF in the long run? Some analysts
| are skeptical, pointing to PDF?s lead and the loyalty towards Adobe
| among publishing and design customers.
|
| Taking on PDF "seems too steep a path to climb," said Kathleen Maher,
| an analyst at Tiburon, Calif.-based Jon Peddie Research. "PDF is
| so ubiquitous, it works on every machine. Adobe is even trying to
| get it onto mobile phones. I just can't see a reason to use an
| operating system-specific standard like XPS."
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9017438&source=rss_news10
http://tinyurl.com/yst567
Windows Vista Product Guide: Free to Download, $149 to Read
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| 'Windows Vista Product Guide' was released in two formats:
|
| Microsoft Office Word 2007
| The standard .doc format isn't good enough, you need to be able to
| read a .docx file, so all those users of Office XP are just plain
| out of luck on
| this one.
|
| XPS
| What the heck is XPS? I hadn't heard of it before now, (a quick
| Google tells me XPS is Microsoft's proprietary rival to PDF)
| but apparently you need a special reader for it (which is
| kindly enough built into Vista, but nothing else).
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http://itsvista.com/2006/12/windows-vista-product-guide-free-to-download-149-to-read/
Adobe could still sue Microsoft: paper
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| Microsoft's new Vista software, due to be released early next
| year, contains a version of fixed document formats which would
| compete with Adobe's PDF format. Microsoft has pledged to make
| changes to its version.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061118/tc_nm/adobe_microsoft_dc
Vista to give HD Photo format more exposure
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| Microsoft is looking to supplant the ubiquitous JPEG with an image format
| of its own--and it's hoping the debut of Windows Vista will help do the
| job.
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http://news.com.com/Vista+to+give+HD+Photo+format+more+exposure/2100-1045_3-6153730.html
Microsoft's 'Everywhere' excludes Linux
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| This browser add-on enables rendering of WPF content, but
| "Everywhere" doesn't include Linux.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7794/53/
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon forn
| etwork applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
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