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Review of the New OpenOffice 3 beta
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| Our favorite office app, OpenOffice has just released the OOo 3.0 beta
| version. My review can be summed up in two words: it rocks!
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http://opencomputer.net/2008/05/15/review-of-the-new-openoffice-3-beta/
The standard that was not and the Hague Declaration
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| We are on the 14 th of May and OOXML is an ISO standard. Slight problem:
| there is no known specification or definitive draft of that ISO standard.
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/14/the-standard-that-was-not-and-the-hague-declaration/
Recent:
OpenOffice.org obeys Moore's Law?
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| Back to the Laws. Has the OpenOffice.org installation size indeed followed
| the general trend of growth in PC disk capacity? This chart, which compares
| the hard drive capacity to OpenOffice.org installations, indicates the answer
| is no. In 2002, OpenOffice.org version 1.0.1 consumes 0.45% of a then-common
| 40GB drive. In 2008, version 2.4.0 consumes 0.15% of a 250GB drive—common on
| new systems today—and even less of the monster 1TB drives available.
| OpenOffice.org has grown slower than predicted.
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http://www.oooninja.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-moores-law-obeys.html
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: Creativity Extended
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| As you can see the 3.0 will sport a number of very interesting and useful
| features, such as the ability to import PDF documents, switching language
| inside one document, a new StartCenter, new icons, etc.I wanted to go a bit
| beyond the list of new features and tell you about the effect that
| OpenOffice.org 3.0 will have on its users and ultimately on the way we create
| content share it and stay happily productive in this always-on world.
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/
Test Drive OpenOffice 3 Beta in Ubuntu
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| I wouldn’t yet do any serious work with this beta release, but I haven’t had
| any issues with it so far. OpenOffice 3 is looking good!
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http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/05/08/test-drive-openoffice-3-beta-in-ubuntu/
OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta shrugs off X11
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| The OpenOffice.org Community has announced the public beta release of
| OpenOffice.org 3.0, a new version of the free office productivity software
| suite for various platforms including Mac OS X.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/050808-openofficeorg-30-beta-shrugs-off.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
First look: OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta a big step forward
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| Overall, OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta feels like a solid evolutionary update with
| a handful of new features that will be useful to various niche user groups.
| It certainly is still a beta, however, as the suite crashed at least once on
| both Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard during testing. If you want to
| put a copy of your own through its paces, though, compiled versions for
| Linux, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X (Intel Macs only) are available now
| from OpenOffice.org's beta download site.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080507-first-look-openoffice-org-3-0-beta-a-big-step-forward.html
Britain complains to EU about Microsoft file system
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| A British watchdog agency said Tuesday it had complained to European Union
| regulators that Microsoft Corp.'s new file format for storing documents
| discouraged competition.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iE62Wtms_IdmDY__zEXVCG36si3QD90KT7701
Agency says Microsoft hurts student interests
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| A government agency has told the European Commission that Microsoft Office
| works poorly with rival software used in schools, hurting the interests of
| learners, teachers and parents.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUKL1356586720080513
OOXML: Wasn't There Supposed to be a Final Text Within a Month?
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| Not to burst any bubbles, but I think the ISO folks have failed to follow the
| rules.
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| [...]
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| Personally, I seem to be losing count already of rules breached, but some of
| you are anal types and probably have charts and graphs and spreadsheets,
| because you haven't yet fully grasped the insouciant breeziness of the
| standards process in our modern world.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080404031741259
Shenanigans Alleged on Road to OOXML Vote
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| The events leading up to the ISO's decision on OOXML can best be described as
| strange.
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| Take the case of KT 182, the Polish technical committee responsible for the
| OOXML standardization process, as described on Groklaw: Chairperson Elzbieta
| Andrukiewicz was instructed that KT 182 should abstain from voting if a
| consensus was not achieved. Well, it wasn't, and she said the members who
| were absent could vote by e-mail E-Mail Marketing Software - Free Trial.
| Click Here. -- but if they didn't vote, she'd take their non-response as a
| yes.
|
| Later, when presenting the results of the ballot resolution, she showed a
| slide that claimed 98 percent of the OOXML issues had been resolved during
| the KT 182 meeting.
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| When reminded this wasn't true, and told that the author of the PowerPoint
| file was Paul Pesch, platform strategy manager at Microsoft Netherlands, she
| threatened to sue anyone who repeated the assertion that Pesch was the
| author.
|
| That slide had been shown at another meeting, and one of the Brazilian
| delegates had complained about it.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62400.html
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