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Videos: get involved!
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| The idea is very simple: webcams are very popular, almost every new laptop
| has one. So you might have one, and if not, you probably know someone who has
| one, and can lend it to you. You could make a "living" postcard: get in front
| of the camera and tell why OOo is special and how to get involved.
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/03/videos-get-involved.html
Recent:
50 million
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| Five months (163 days) since release, and OpenOffice.org 3.0 yesterday
| clocked up its 50 millionth download via http://download.openoffice.org. OK,
| we know there are many good reasons why OpenOffice.org should be on
| everyone’s desktop, but thi is still an extraordinary achievement.
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http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/03/26/50-million/
Related:
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 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/
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
Microsoft earnings post-mortem: The cash cows quiver
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| I can’t help but wonder if the lackluster Windows/Office results also can be
| attributed to Microsoft brass’s complete and crazy obsession with Google (and
| taking over Yahoo) has resulted in no one minding the Windows store. Kevin
| Johnson, the head of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services division seems to be so
| laser-focused on the online-ad business these days that he almost seems to
| have forgotten Microsoft is still in the software business, too.
|
| Microsoft execs’ claims about walking away from the Yahoo deal are nothing
| more than bluster. A protracted hostile takeover bid is just going to
| distract not just employees in Microsoft’s online services business, but
| company management, too. It’s not a pretty picture.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1362
Microsoft Pays $200 for Mentioning Its Tools
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| If you're a professor and you mention Microsoft programming tools in a
| scholarly presentation -- in fact, even if you just use the tools --
| Microsoft will send you a check for $200.
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http://chronicle.com/data/articles.dir/art-44.dir/issue-33.dir/33a03001.htm
Remember to install extensions for OpenOffice.org
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| The flexibility of open source, and the handy Extensions system, lets the
| community write functionality for OpenOffice.org without having to make it
| part of the main program...
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http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2009/02/remember-to-install-extensions-for-openofficeorg.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
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
9 Must-Have OpenOffice Extensions
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| Like Firefox, OpenOffice also comes with extensions that you can use to
| improve its functionality. Here, we have tested all the extensions and sorted
| out those that are useful for everyday use. Some of them are for general use
| while some are only meant for Writer, Calc or Impress. (For those who haven’t
| heard about OpenOffice before, it’s a popular free alternative to Microsoft
| Office)
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/9-must-have-openoffice-extensions/
Five Useful Extensions for OpenOffice.org
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| Want to expand OpenOffice.org's default functionality? The official extension
| repository has quite a few extensions you can use to add some nifty features
| to the productivity suite. Precisely which extensions you might find useful
| depends, of course, on your particular needs, but there are at least five
| extensions that deserve a closer look no matter how you use OpenOffice.org.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/blogs/productivity_sauce_dmitri_s_open_source_blend_of_productive_computing/five_useful_extensions_for_openoffice_org
http://tinyurl.com/67syvo
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