Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"
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| The new version 4.0 of the document "Standards and Architectures for
| eGovernment Applications" (SAGA) by the German Ministry of the Interior now
| recommends ODF for text documents.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended
Quite a nice tour of things to come from one application that supports ODF:
OpenOffice.org 3.0's new features, an early look
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| OpenOffice.org 3.0 is 167 days away, but who's counting? Maybe the software
| developers are counting because they have a whopping 2,278 issues targeted
| for this release. Even though OpenOffice.org 2.4 is not yet out the door,
| let's see how far they've come with OpenOffice.org 3.0.
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http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html
Related:
Impressive Eye Candy: 3D OpenGL Transitions
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| PowerPoint's old push-down transition has done its 15 years of service, and
| it's time for it to retire. Do the sleepy faces in your meetings agree?
| OpenOffice.org Impress 2.4 has the answer in the form ten 3D OpenGL-rendered
| transitions:
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| * Flipping tiles
| * Outside turning cube
| * Revolving circles
| * Turning helix
| * Inside turning cube
| * Fall
| * Turn around
| * Iris
| * Turn down
| * Rochade
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http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/eye-candy-3d-opengl-transitions-impress.html
German penal institutions looking into OpenOffice.org
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| It looks like that OpenOffice.org is also being used in areas where many of
| us don't expect it, or wouldn't research for. I have reports that some German
| penal institutions are looking into OpenOffice.org for their daily office
| work.
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/german-penal-institutions-looking-into.html
Just a coincidence?
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| According to Davide Dozza, Chairman of Associazione PLIO: "The numbers are
| exactly the same. If it's just a coincidence, it's a very strange one.
| Downloads of the Italian version of OpenOffice.org were 800.000 in 2006 and
| 1.800.000 in 2007: the difference is exactly in the million of Italians
| that - according to Microsoft - have downloaded the trial version of Office
| 2007. We think that these users have decided to switch to OpenOffice.org as
| soon as they have realized that the effort to get used to the new ribbon
| interface is higher than the effort to migrate to the open source suite. In
| 2007, the majority of information requests has been about the compatibility
| with Windows Vista, and the trend stays unchanged in 2008".
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/just-coincidence.html
[German] Federal Employment Office switches to Linux
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
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