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Suddenly, a flurry of OOXML-ODF related news « CyberTech Rambler Fourth. We may in fact, never see a full implementation of ISO OOXML. Microsoft already said that it will support ODF 1.1, not ISO ODF (version 1.0). That is a correct technical decision, since ODF 1.1 is the norm today. Superimpose this tread of thinking [...]

AT&T CEO says hard to find skilled U.S. workers – Yahoo! News This is pretty rich. I’m sure you, like I, have dealt with telephone support before. Normally, company policies are so strict that they have to follow a script, even if you’ve already eliminated the causes on their list. I was in a hotel, [...]

Some advice on our tech blog about computer buying. Blogged with Flock Tags: computerbuying

The ballot resolution meeting for DIS 29500 (Ecma 376/OOXML) has ended. You can search Technorati or IceRocket for the discussion of the event and the edited text that resulted. Some issues that could not be resolved at the meeting are still threats to your business in the long term. The legal (“IP”) issue, for example, [...]

This morning, Microsoft publicly confirmed months of speculation by making an offer for Yahoo!. It is no secret that both Microsoft and Yahoo! are lagging in their efforts to compete with the Google in the search and online advertising spaces. You can find more details about the proposed transaction elsewhere (finance.yahoo.com, bloomberg). One thing that [...]

In what has been called a “stinging rebuke”, the European Court of the First Instance (CFI) ruled against an appeal by Microsoft in a long-running case pitting the world’s largest software company against the European Commission. The second-highest court in Europe on Monday rejected Microsoft’s attempt to overturn a landmark European Commission antitrust ruling and [...]

In ancient times, one of the weapons that soldiers used was the spear. The good thing about a spear is that it gave the ability to repeatedly hurt your enemy (enemies) before the enemy could get into sword range. Microsoft is looking in its rearview mirror, terrified at the approaching juggernaut that is FLOSS. As [...]

As we discussed on La Voz De La Revoluccion, US News & World Report tells us that Apple’s recent gains are partly due to virtualization, saying, “Bottom line: Which one your base machine is won’t matter as much anymore. Software will run well just about everywhere.“ Even before their new version comes out, Apple is [...]

Jonathan Scwartz, CEO/President of Sun Microsystems, has some sage advice about your brand. Your brand is a lot more than you think it is. This is the best advice on the topic that I have ever seen.

In Defense Of Free Markets Or, Reasons Why Antitrust Laws Must Be Enforced Sadly, the technology news and information site C|Net has allowed itself to be used as a tool of monopolists. Why is Microsoft under fire for antitrust violations? I am not an attorney, but just reading the news and my old business law [...]