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Mittwoch Februar 07, 2007

ODF plug-in for Microsoft Word by Sun
Sun just announced an ODF plug-in for Microsoft Word. The bits will become available in mid February.
( Feb 07 2007, 03:20:44 PM CET ) Permalink

OpenOffice.org at a South African School
Thanks to Chris Charuhas for making me aware of this. Quote: "How a school created a new computer lab without buying computers, software, or books"
( Feb 07 2007, 03:06:43 PM CET ) Permalink

OpenOffice.org for OS/2
OS/2 gets ODF support:
"Serenity Systems International is pleased to announce the availability of Release Candidate 1 of OpenOffice.org 2.0 for eComStation and OS/2. This build is based on the 2.0.4 sourcecode of OpenOffice.org."
Found here.
( Feb 07 2007, 03:00:47 PM CET ) Permalink

"The Contradictory Nature of OOXML (Part II) – 19 Nations Respond"
"Well the results are in, and an unprecedented nineteen countries have responded during the contradictions phase - most or all lodging formal contradictions with Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC), the ISO/IEC body that is managing the Fast Track process under which OOXML (now Ecma 476) has been submitted. This may not only be the largest number of countries that have ever submitted contradictions in the ISO/IEC process, but nineteen responses is greater than the total number of national bodies that often bother to vote on a proposed standard at all."
Found here.
( Feb 07 2007, 10:13:37 AM CET ) Permalink

"Texas, Minnesota eye move to ODF"
"Texas and Minnesota may become the second and third U.S. states to adopt Open Document Format for XML (ODF) as the standard file format for government documents instead of the file format that Microsoft uses in its Office 2007 software suite."
Found here.
( Feb 07 2007, 09:20:55 AM CET ) Permalink