I have been meaning to blog about this for awhile. File this under “Better Late Than Never”. What’s the best archival format for your important documents? In a previous post I suggested parchment might be—but that’s impractical. All joking aside, the issue is a serious for anyone who is going to spend the better part […]
There is a petition against OOXML becoming an ISO standard here. Besides the fact that there already is an ISO document standard, ODF, a real standard is easy to implement and naturally has a variety of implementations. But there is no working implementation of OOXML and unlikely to be any produced by anyone other than […]
BadBunny is a multi-platform worm affecting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X spread by an OpenOffice Draw document, “badbunny.odg”. When opened, it displays an image of a man in a bunny suit having sex and launches mIRC on Windows or XChat on Linux or OS X to forward itself to IRC users. This highlights the […]
OpenOffice.org has just released an Aqua version of OpenOffice. It is Alpha software with the following grim warning: WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE MAY CRASH AND MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT Download it here…if you dare. Or if you need a more reliable port, try NeoOffice. […]
Sun Microsystems has announced that it will be joining OpenOffice.org in porting its office suite to Mac OS X. Open Office currently runs on OS X in and X11 environment. NeoOffice is a fork of that project that provides a Java port for OS X. But it is slooow and Mac users tend to not […]
Microsoft has issued an open letter on interoperability in which they criticize IBM for opposing Open XML as an open standard. In an Ars Technica article, a Microsoft spokesperson has some harsh words for IBM: “Microsoft has determined that it is important to shine a bright light on IBM’s activities that will have a negative […]
Rob Weir over at An Antic Disposition has a good discussion of Microsoft’s Office Open XML—its new document format—and the Open Document Format developed by Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards which was based on the XML format originally implemented by OpenOffice.org office suite. Some of the problems with storing data in proprietary […]
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