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Technology Adoption (2 of 4)
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| On the consumer side, OpenOffice.org, which certainly promotes Sun's vision
| of open standards and data formats, reaches nearly three million new users -
| every week. Adding them to a user base we estimate to be between 150 and 200
| million users. Talk about global circulation.
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http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/step_one_adoption
Who would buy Office now? Elsewhere in the news it's shown that Microsoft
thinks about making Office free with ads. That would have the same effect on
Office revenue as Linux has on Windows, esp. in sub-notebooks.
Buh-bye, margins.
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.
|
| [...]
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| 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
OpenOffice.org Breaks Records Everywhere
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| All around the world, it seems, people just can't get enough of this amazing
| free office suite, which is now turning in serious market shares in some
| countries. For, example, according to this report, there are now 12 million
| users in Brazil, representing fully 25% of the entire office market there.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1369&blogid=14
BrOffice, the Brazilian OpenOffice, with a life of its own
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| This is affirmed in practice by articles on BrOffice’s website, describing
| how the Digital Program of Paraná State has installed 40,000 copies of
| BrOffice.org at 2,000 state schools, which is 95.24% of the schools of in the
| state of Paraná. Another impressive number is that the House of
| Representatives of Brazil saved R$5 Million (USD$3 Million) by adopting
| BrOffice.org as their office suite.
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http://news.northxsouth.com/2008/08/25/broffice-the-brazilian-openoffice-with-a-life-of-its-own/
Open Office vs. MS Office - the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition
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| So, if your excuse for not giving Linux a try was that you needed to be able
| to work with your Office documents... well, you just ran out of excuses.
| Think of what you will gain, too! No more suffering through all the
| gratuitous menu/toolbar/button changes that Microsoft makes in every new
| Office release. No more suffering through incompatible file formats between
| releases, which Microsoft seems to do every two or three releases - this is
| the second time it has happened that I can recall, and I assume that the
| recent OOXML debacle means that there is another change coming in the next
| Office release. Best of all, no more having to pay to upgrade to the new
| version every time Microsoft sees fit.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009002o-2000498448b,00.htm
The State of Kedah moves to OpenOffice.org
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| A case study submitted to the Open Source Competency Center by the Center of
| Information Technology, Office of the Chief Minister and State Secretary of
| Kedah, has indicated that OpenOffice.org has been installed in 70% of the
| computers in the Kedah state government agencies. There are currently 2,202
| installed seats and by the looks of it, the numbers will just keep rising!
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/08/case-study-on-t.html
announcing the winner of the splash screen poll
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| I'd like to announce the winner of the splash screen poll. We had a total of
| 789 votes, which is a quite good count! The winner is
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-winner-of-splash-screen-poll.html
The entire State of Pahang moves to OpenOffice.org
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| Its just been made official that the State of Pahang is migrating all its
| productivity suites to OpenOffice.org. This succint memo from the State
| Secretary of Pahang entitled "Perlaksanaan Penggunaan Perisian OpenOffice.Org
| Di Semua Agensi dan Pentadbiran Negeri" (translated: "Implementation of
| OpenOffice.org suite in all State Agencies and Administrative centres")
| outlines the reasons for migrating, the benefits and how to proceed.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/08/the-entire-stat.html
90 things that are the same in Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org
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| I've put together three articles, showing tasks that are the same between
| Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org.
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http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2008/06/90-things-that-are-the-same-in-microsoft-office-and-openofficeorg.html
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