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Microsoft Needs to Fully Embrace the Future
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| For now, according to the BW article, Microsoft will continue to deliver its
| core Office package as server-based package while offering a free neutered
| online version. Some may embrace the free one because they are dealing with a
| known commodity, but many have likely switched already to another vendor and
| won't give it a look. Microsoft could go all the way here and offer a tiered
| online pricing model and compete directly with Google at something it does
| well, but it's afraid of costs spiraling out of control and killing their
| cash cow.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4476.html
KOffice 2 Receives its First Update
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| Today, exactly one month since the release of KOffice 2.0.0, the KOffice team
| releases the first bugfix release in the 2.0 series. This release contains no
| new features but lots of bugfixes for almost all of the components in KOffice
| 2.0. We are planning at least two more bugfix releases of 2.0 before starting
| the 2.1 series in October this year.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2009/06/28/koffice-2-receives-its-first-update
New Release of Oxygen XML Editor and Oxygen XML Author version 10.3
http://opendocument.xml.org/news/new-release-of-oxygen-xml-editor-and-oxygen-xml-author-version-103
COPU 2009: Community Matters: Participation, Production, and Sponsorship
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| Nevertheless, one still needs the political infrastructure in order to
| constitute a Foss community that has any chance of sustaining itself. Mere
| spirit won't do it in the long run. This means that there must be in place
| the mechanisms by which any member of the project can communicate to another
| and freely discuss project matters with the expectation that discussions have
| effect and are not just politely ignored. As well, it is generally important,
| though I no longer think it requisite, that members have a sense
| of “ownership” in the community or at least in what they are doing. It's a
| feature more important in some areas than others, and as Foss continues to
| move away from its origins in the West and find welcome homes in Asia and
| Africa and India, that model becomes less essential.
| All the same, this is just another way of saying that what global
| participatory communities need is a structure of governance that can
| accommodate difference within the community itself. Governance means here the
| guidelines by which authority is coordinated. Given the global nature of,
| especially, large Foss projects, or even smaller ones (the Internet knows now
| boundaries), flexibility is crucial―but so are guidelines that ensure
| impartiality and nullify arbitrariness.
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http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/06/copu-2009-community-matters.html
ODF Plugfest
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| We had an ODF Plugfest last week in the Hague. Although we've had
| interoperability workshops and camps before that attracted a handful of
| vendors, this was the first one that had nearly universal participation from
| ODF vendors. I'm not going to recap the details of the plugfest. Others have
| done that already. But I will share with you some of my conclusions, based on
| long discussions with other participants, from whose insights I have greatly
| benefited.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/06/odf-plugfest.html
Recent:
Openoffice.org: 7 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do
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| Even though OpenOffice.org - which is, yes, an application suite, not just a
| Web site - can’t do everything Office can, it can do a lot, and it has some
| of its own tricks that even Office can’t manage. Here are a few that may not
| be obvious, as well as a few ways to make OpenOffice.org less annoying out of
| the box.
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http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/openofficeorg-7-things-you-didnt-know-you-could-do/
Finally: Anti Aliasing is done for OOo 3.1!
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| Fast enough methods for Anti-Aliasing on all systems had to be evaluated. All
| this had to be done in a compatible manner, migrating the 'living' office
| over that time. All in all, about 500.000 lines of code were
| changed/rewritten (CWSes aw024, aw033, aw059). Doesn't sound like a dead
| project, does it? If You are interested in more details, You may follow the
| task's description and its discussions and links.
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/finally_anti_aliasing_is_done
Heads up for users of bidirectional and CTL text
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| OpenOffice.org 3.1 will have quite a lot of improvements. Especially advances
| in the internationalization (I18N) infrastructure are very important in a
| product with over a hundred localizations (L10N). OOo is used all over the
| world by millions of users and we really want to provide the office
| productivity suite of choice for everyone.statcounter
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/heads_up_for_users_of
OpenOffice 3.0.1 Released
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| The OpenOffice.org project team have released OpenOffice 3.0.1 to the general
| public. Version 3.0.1 for Windows was leaked early by FileHippo on Monday,
| but now is officially available for download from the OpenOffice.org website
| and its mirrors. The new release of the open source office suite includes
| several bug fixes to repair some of the more major issues, such as fixing
| when auto-recovery does not recover the previously auto-saved document
| version, but the last one which was regularly saved, along with other smaller
| fixes.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenOffice-3-0-1-Released--/news/112504
New Chart features in OpenOffice.org 3.1
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| Interested in the new Chart features that will be available in OOo 3.1? Have
| a look...
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_chart_features_in_openoffice1
Making menus a little nicer
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| So now that code freeze for 3.1 is almost upon us, work for 3.2 begins. As a
| first little step I looked through some old issues and noticed Issues 42227
| and 48965 which I must admit went a little under in the load of my intray.
| The problem described in there is basically an aesthetic one: currently menus
| reserve two "columns" for checkmarks and item images, because menu items can
| be checked as well as have an image and both should be reflected of course in
| the display. But this creates a large area where most of the time nothing
| appears on the left of the menu, making the menu look clunkier than
| necessary.
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/making_menus_a_little_nicer
New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look
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| OpenOffice.org 3.1 is 65 days away, and developers are finishing up more than
| 1000 issues targeted for this Microsoft-Office-killer packing an army of new
| features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
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http://www.oooninja.com/2009/01/openofficeorg-31-new-features.html
Proofreading in OpenOffice.org
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| Grammar checking is a feature that was missed in OpenOffice.org for quite
| some time. Grammar checking software for several languages is available,
| either as standalone tools or integrated into other programs. I prefer the
| name “proofreading” for this kind of software, as usually these programs go
| beyond checking grammar. Some offer style checking, others may check text
| against abstract rules. In general the task for this kind of software is to
| check and improve text regarding anything else than simple spell checking
| (though it makes sense to include spell checking into the process as this
| helps to analyze the text).
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/proofreading_in_openoffice_org
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