Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Donnerstag März 29, 2007

Dell will ship Linux on desktop computers
I just read this article: "In light of overwhelming customer demand, Dell has officially confirmed it will soon offer Linux pre-installed on select consumer desktop and notebook systems."
Considering that almost all Linux distributions include OpenOffice.org, I'm sure that Dell's decision will boost the adoption and market share of OpenOffice.org and ODF as well.
( Mrz 29 2007, 05:00:20 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Microsoft employees met in Olso
"To the beautiful city of Oslo to attend the first SC 34 meeting of the year, and in particular to progress DSDL. SC34 suddenly has a lot of new P member countries ('participating member' countries) sending representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees. However, thoughts of Office Open XML (OOXML) are far from my mind, and far from the agenda for this meeting, a point strongly made by our secretary who emphasised that OOXML was outside the bounds of what we were going to be discussing."

Found here. I guess the Microsoft folks will have talked quite a bit about OOXML anyway considering the following:

"Microsoft Corp's director of corporate standards has conceded that 'legitimate concerns' have been raised in response to its attempt to fast-track the approval of its Open XML format by ISO." (see this)
( Mrz 29 2007, 04:45:04 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
OpenOffice.org 2.2 has just been released:

"While OpenOffice.org 2.1 functions well on Microsoft's Windows Vista, version 2.2 makes use of some of the new cosmetic changes available in Vista, the new file dialogues being an example. Apple Mac users will notice a smaller download and a smaller installed size. The Apple Mac Intel version has many stability improvements, and bug fixes ranging from .ppt export to improved UNO connections. Version 2.2 now requires Mac OS X 10.4.x running X11.

Turning to some of the enhancements made to the individual components of OpenOffice.org, the Calc spreadsheet has received additional enhancements to its support for Microsoft file formats, including improved support for Pivot Tables and some specialised trigonometric functions. Base, the database component, has improved SQL editing functionality as well as a new "Queries within Queries" feature. Compatibility options for some database drivers, such as Oracle ODBC, have been improved. Impress, the presentations component, offers improvements in the handling of hidden slides which has been made more intuitive."
( Mrz 29 2007, 04:40:59 PM CEST ) Permalink