OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21475/ODF_Net_Apps_Netbooks_Will_Invigorate_the_OS_Landscape Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:19:47 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Win2k7 SP2? http://osnews.com/thread?363051 http://osnews.com/thread?363051 Could the OP please correct that? Are you guys referring to Windoze Vista? Then please use Vista not Windows 2007.

I would not put it past MS to just sit idly. Lets just hope they do not counter this goodwill with EEE.

-AdEdited 2009-05-12 15:43 UTC Tue, 12 May 2009 15:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adkilla) Comments RE: Win2k7 SP2? http://osnews.com/thread?363059 http://osnews.com/thread?363059 Thanks for noticing that. I'm talking about Office, not Windows. It's corrrected. Tue, 12 May 2009 16:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David) Comments Save the cork http://osnews.com/thread?363062 http://osnews.com/thread?363062
This week I received a triumphal press release from the Open Document Foundation, announcing that the just-released Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 has native support for the ODF (Open Document Format) file format.

Perhaps we should not break out the champagne just yet:

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html Tue, 12 May 2009 16:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments RE: Save the cork http://osnews.com/thread?363065 http://osnews.com/thread?363065 yes, save the cork
but not because of microsoft

the odf-spec is incomplete and unprecise (especialy when dealing with spreadsheets)
this will probably change with 1.2 but for now we are stuck with a html-revival of the worst kindEdited 2009-05-12 16:38 UTC Tue, 12 May 2009 16:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smashIt) Comments Lots of buzzwords thrown around, granted, but... http://osnews.com/thread?363084 http://osnews.com/thread?363084 Example:

> The rise of XML as a lingua-franca for inter-machine communication has enabled the internet as we know it

... what? Tue, 12 May 2009 17:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moocha) Comments RE: Lots of buzzwords thrown around, granted, but... http://osnews.com/thread?363088 http://osnews.com/thread?363088 html -> xhtml -> xml -> sgml

I would say that mark-up languages in general, used in web pages as well as web-services, have enabled the web as we know it. I think that is the point.

Otherwise, we might still be gophering .txt files! Tue, 12 May 2009 17:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments RE[2]: Lots of buzzwords thrown around, granted, but... http://osnews.com/thread?363158 http://osnews.com/thread?363158 XML, HTML, SVG, JSON, WDSL, SOAP, XML-RPC is just text, let's be honest. And let's keep it that way. Text does work quiet well, it's fairly simple and efficient in most incarnations. You can compress it pretty good when needed. Tue, 12 May 2009 21:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lennie) Comments RE[2]: Save the cork http://osnews.com/thread?363236 http://osnews.com/thread?363236
yes, save the cork
but not because of microsoft

the odf-spec is incomplete and unprecise (especialy when dealing with spreadsheets)
this will probably change with 1.2 but for now we are stuck with a html-revival of the worst kind


Unfortunately so - but it doesn't help when Microsoft talks about supporting ODF but unwilling to roll up their sleeves and work with the OASIS group to get these short comings sorted out. Microsoft reminds me very much of the politician who bad mouths an oppositions idea but never proposing an alternative and rolling up their sleeves to work with the government on the idea. Wed, 13 May 2009 03:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments RE[2]: Lots of buzzwords thrown around, granted, but... http://osnews.com/thread?363259 http://osnews.com/thread?363259 Nono, David Adams was definitely talking about XML - read the quote in context. And even in context it's complete BS. Wed, 13 May 2009 05:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moocha) Comments RE[3]: Save the cork http://osnews.com/thread?363323 http://osnews.com/thread?363323
Microsoft reminds me very much of the politician who bad mouths an oppositions idea but never proposing an alternative


but ms has
it's called ooxml Wed, 13 May 2009 10:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smashIt) Comments RE[4]: Save the cork http://osnews.com/thread?363553 http://osnews.com/thread?363553 No, that's their own shitty implementation of a supposedly "open" format, which - by the way - corrupted and bribed its way in many countries to become an ISO "standard" (I won't go into the nasty details as, unless you've been living in a cave for the past year or so, you can find references everywhere on the Internet over this mess). Thu, 14 May 2009 03:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (1c3d0g) Comments