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ODF@WWW - How it works
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| While demoing the ODF Wiki to OpenOffice.org and Sun Folks (and by the way, I
| happily demo it to everybody stumbling into my office :-), I recognized
| different reactions of people, there were the ones who obviously use Wikis in
| their daily work and who immediately understood what I wanted to show, namely
| the possibility of an ODF based Wiki with rich editing capabilities
| (including graphics, formulas etc.), than there were the ones who seemed to
| be disappointed, as I just recombined already available stuff, and finally
| the ones, whose first thought was about how I did implement this. So, this
| posting is just for the people curious about how it works :-)
|
| For implementing the prototype of an ODF Wiki I used off-the-shelf components
| only, I have to admit, that I only tried it on Linux and OpenSolaris ...
| Windows just seemed too far away ;-)
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_how_it_works
Recent:
Microsoft: 'ODF Has Clearly Won'
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| The battle between the OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's Open Office XML
| was long, and here and there rather nasty, but it appears as if we finally
| have a winner. The company behind OOXML already conceded by announcing it
| would implement support for ODF in Office 2007 SP2, but now it has also said
| it quite literally: ODF has won.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/19893
Is Microsoft Office in trouble?
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| And, now Microsoft isn't hurrying to support its own format, but it is moving
| to support PDF and ODF... Could it be that all those copies of Office 2007
| Microsoft boasts of selling are collecting dust at reseller and retailer
| warehouses instead of being used on office systems? Could users be sticking
| with their older copies of Office and when they do want to move to something
| newer, they're moving to OpenOffice and Google instead?
|
| Interesting isn't it?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/is_microsoft_office_in_trouble
Microsoft can’t support Open XML
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| If Microsoft can’t give users a compelling reason to switch from their old
| version of Office to Office 14 their cash-flow is going to slow down
| considerably.
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http://practical-tech.com/business/microsoft-cant-support-open-xml/
The Fall of Microsoft Office
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| On the same day that the state of New York published a report supporting open
| formats for electronic documents, mighty Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) said that
| it would support the open-source ODF format in Office 2007. Redmond's own
| Open Office XML specification may be heading for the great Recycle Bin in the
| sky, never to come back.
|
| [...]
|
| I can't say that Google or Sun or anybody else just won a bigger share of the
| office software market, and if they did, it won't help their revenue or
| profits directly anyway. But it's clear as day that Microsoft just took a
| serious hit, and the impact may take a long time to make itself felt but it
| will come.
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http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/05/27/the-fall-of-microsoft-office.aspx
Is Office the new Netscape?
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| One of the cornerstones of Microsoft's competitive strategy over the years
| has been to redefine competitors' products as features of its own products.
| Whenever some upstart PC software company started to get traction with a new
| application - the Netscape browser is the most famous example - Microsoft
| would incorporate a version of the application into its Office suite or
| Windows operating system, eroding the market for the application as a
| standalone product and starving its rival of economic oxygen (ie, cash). It
| was an effective strategy as well as a controversial one.
|
| Now, though, the tables may be turning. Google is trying to pull a Microsoft
| on Microsoft by redefining core personal-productivity applications -
| calendars. word processing, spreadsheets, etc. - as features embedded in
| other products. There's a twist, though. Rather than just incorporating the
| applications as features in its own products, Google is offering them up to
| other companies, particularly big IT vendors, to incorporate as features in
| their products.
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http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/05/one_of_the_corn.php
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