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Donnerstag März 01, 2007

"The OOXML Contradictions Disclosed"
"As you'll recall, I had been told that the majority of these responses were critical, while Microsoft had downplayed them, suggesting that most or many were either neutral, or in fact "laudatory." As they are to be made public shortly, you will be able to perform your own comparison, but here are brief extracts from each of the 20 responses received by JTC 1 (the package confirms, as I had earlier reported, that a total of 20, and not 19, responses were received). While these are only extracts, I have reproduced short out takes that are sufficient to allow you to now see the actual mix between favorable, neutral and negative responses. As you will see, 14 of 20 responses were clearly negative, two indicated divisions of opinion, three were inconclusive or neutral, and one offered no objections. I think that it's fair to say that the over view that I had previously offered has proven to be accurate."
Andy Updegrove's full blog entry can be found here.
( Mrz 01 2007, 06:33:20 AM CET ) Permalink

New article about OpenOffice.org Basic programming
"Of course, OOo offers a Send Document as E-mail feature, but it requires too many steps to be convenient to use. The macro you are about to create allows you to send the currently opened document as an email message, automatically adding information such as the file's name and time stamp, all done in the background without any user interaction. This is, literally, a one-click backup solution for your OpenOffice.org documents."
The full article can be found here.
( Mrz 01 2007, 12:36:50 AM CET ) Permalink