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It's an active news day from Adobe!

By Andrew Trice
June 16, 2009

Two news items from Adobe today. Adobe released online spreadsheets with Acrobat Tables, and Adobe also releases the RTMP specification as part of the open screen project.

Adobe Opens-Up Acrobat.com Presentations

By Andrew Trice
May 27, 2009

In a move to have an online office suite, Adobe recently released Acrobat.com Presentations. This, paired together with Buzzword and the additional capabilites of acrobat.com provide Adobe with a compelling online suite of office productivity applications, powered by the Flash platform.

Robots on the March

By Rick Jelliffe
April 26, 2009

Reading Richard Hillesley's IBM, Sun and OpenOffice.org at IT PRO, I was struck at certain rather glib assertion: OpenOffice is more than adequate to the needs of the 95 per cent of users. This is the same thing we hear about Linux. But dare we ask what it if it isn't in fact true in some significant sense?

Fake real-time blog from Document Interoperability Initiative 2 at Redmond

By Rick Jelliffe
October 29, 2008

Can Microsoft's idea of "document archetypes" and "interoperable templates" be ramped up to provide a fresh new approach to both better document interoperability and better descriptive markup?

OpenOffice.org 3 Release Candidate 3: No X11 Needed

By Todd Ogasawara
October 1, 2008

OpenOffice.org 3 Release Candidate 3 is available. So, I revisited OOo to see how it looks today (I commented on its Beta release back in May).

Is Office Suite Markup worth the trouble?

By Simon St. Laurent
August 25, 2008

In his Extreme "first person" talk yesterday, Patrick Durusau asked some of the right questions about the recent explosive battles over standardizing XML generated by Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org. I can't share his conviction, though, that getting through this firefight...

Just how large was the XML revolution?

By Simon St. Laurent
August 14, 2008

In a talk that he'd contemplated naming "XML as the precipitating factor in the upcoming religious wars," Eduardo Gutentag examined how XML participated in, or even started, a revolution that most of the world didn't notice. Gutentag quoted Jon Bosak...

Importing XML documents into Word 2007 and OpenOffice Writer through XSLTs

By Rick Jelliffe
August 11, 2008

Opening an XML file with an XSLT transformation is a simple, useful and valuable technique for integrating work processing systems into larger XML ecosystems

OpenOffice 3.0 Beta with Native Mac Aqua Interface (Finally!)

By Todd Ogasawara
May 13, 2008

OpenOffice 3.0 for Mac Beta finally lets us run OOo without X11. It has some compatibility issues with Microsoft Office 2008 formats. But, it runs faster than Office 2008. And, the price is right. Read on a for a few more initial impressions of OOo 3.0 Beta for Mac.

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac: What's New?

By Todd Ogasawara
January 16, 2008

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is out. And, here's what's new... Microsoft really likes to have multiple versions of the same product. There are five versions of Windows Vista. And, there will be eight versions of Windows Server 2008 when it is released. So, we should be happy there are only three versions of Office for Mac 2008 to choose from :-) All three versions come with the five core applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage, and Messenger. Office for the Mac 2008 (which I'll call standard edition here) is US$399.95 (239.95 upgrade). Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition is $499.95 ($299.95 upgrade). And, Office for Mac 2008 Home and Student Edition is $149.95. The Media Edition adds the Microsoft Expression (60-day trial edition available). The Home and Student Edition doesn't have Office-specifc Automator Actions (more on this later) or the ability to work with Microsoft Exchange Server. However, it does provide three users licenses.

Resolution Scorecard

By Daniel H. Steinberg
December 23, 2007

I had set this year as the year I would become Microsoft free. I have nothing against Microsoft --- there were just some products I wanted to stop using: IE, Office, and Windows.