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vaporware?
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| Now Microsoft customers are faced with the Microsoft vaporware problem.
| Microsoft is asking customers to hold off buying any ODF compliant software
| until Microsoft produces one. Any Microsoft customer who is planning to move
| to ODF must ask themselves the following questions before they decide to wait
| for Microsoft to fulfill their promise.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-21-022-26-NW-MS-SW-0000
Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - and not OOXML
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| Regardless of the motivation, today's announcement is indeed good news for
| everyone that believes in open document formats in general, and in ODF in
| particular. Once Office users can round trip documents with ODF users, and
| vice versa, the frequency of that process should begin to increase.
| Hopefully, Microsoft's years-long delay in agreeing to participate in the
| ODF working group will allow better interoperability as well over time.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080521092930864
Next Office 2007 service pack will include ODF, PDF support options
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| In a breakthrough development, Microsoft has announced its future editions of
| Microsoft Office, beginning with Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, will enable
| users to choose OpenDocument support as an alternate default option.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Next_Office_2007_service_pack_will_include_ODF_PDF_support_options/1211343807
Microsoft boosts support for rival formats in Office
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| Now, the company is going a step further by building ODF and PDF support
| directly into Office. In addition, customers will now be able to set ODF as
| the default file format in Office 2007.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9949432-7.html
How well will they support it? When? It seems like a market-freezing attempt,
but it's good for ODF either way.
Recent:
BE, NL: governments will not use ISO OOXML
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| Asked to comment on last week's ISO approval for OOXML, Fedict's chief IT
| architect, Peter Strickx, said: "There will have to be multiple
| implementations, in order for us not to become dependent on a single vendor.
| It will also have to be compatible with open standards that we already use,
| in this case Open Document Format ODF."
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7562
DE: German Foreign Ministry will not use ISO OOXML
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| In the weeks prior to the second round of votes last September,
| irregularities were reported in the standard committees in many participating
| countries. These claims continued until after the final discussion, in
| February and March this year.
|
| The European Commission has started an investigation into the allegations.
| The Commission sent a letter to all EU national standards committees in
| Europe, requesting information about the process. Sources at the Commission
| declined to comment, as the investigation is on-going and no official
| position has yet been adopted.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7561
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
German ERP software vendor adds OpenOffice.org support
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_erp_software_vendor_adds
German portfolio analysis software supports OpenOffice.org
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_portfolio_analysis_software_supports
Sun Adds New Twinkle to StarOffice, OpenOffice
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| Roughly 1 million copies of OpenOffice.org are downloaded per week, not
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| including distributions through vendors such as Google, Herring said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60767.html
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