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Is the UK an open source laggard?
News Secondly, the high licensing and training costs for Microsoft Office will push us to evaluate alternative options. CIOs are split on the controversial issue of adopting more open source software in corporate IT. [21 Jul 2008]
OOXML - Microsoft admits to standards naivety
News Microsoft has admitted that, despite being one of the dominant names in IT for more than 30 years, it had little or no experience of software standards until the company was mid-way through the process of getting Office Open XML approved by the... [24 Jun 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its fight against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. At the end of April, the UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) applied for a judicial... [23 Jun 2008]
EC pledges open standards support
News The Commission also said earlier this year it would investigate allegations about Microsoft's behaviour, including allegations of rigged voting during International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) accreditation for Microsoft Office Open XML... [12 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready to take on Microsoft Office. The software is free, with unlimited technical support for around $25 per user, and it supports the ODF document format... [09 Jun 2008]
Mobile broadband ushers in Blue day
News Blue Mobile has a solid back office. Malook has the confident and straightforward manner that comes with one and a half decades of open outcry trading. Ask anyone in the finance arena about up-to-date financial information and they will almost... [03 Jun 2008]
Tesco spends £100m on network overhaul
News The contract with Cable & Wireless (C&W) is intended to free office staff from their desks by using mobile VoIP phones, allow remote experts to advise customers on the best wines or gadgets via video kiosks and transmit regular video pep-talks for... [28 May 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News A Microsoft spokesperson said: "We already substantially support IS29500 [the Open XML specification that was recently approved by ISO/IEC members] in Office 2007 and we've announced our plans to update that support in the next version of Office... [23 May 2008]
Microsoft pledges Office 2007 ODF support
News Microsoft said yesterday that starting some time next year it will make it easier for users of an open-source rival to work with Microsoft Office. Without adding any special software to Office, users will be able to open documents sent to them in... [22 May 2008]
Open source: UK dragging its heels
News Three years ago, Taylor said, an Office of Government Commerce study reached the same conclusion: a lot of government departments had signed up for an open-source project, only to leave when they found they were locked in. [15 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News However, at the start of this year the Commission began its own investigation into Microsoft's interoperability issues, an investigation that has since expanded to take in questions over how Microsoft may have used its dominance in the sector to... [14 May 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News It seems fitting that after the Met Office helped open the eyes of the world to global warming it is at the forefront of efforts to prevent it. These computational workhorses and their predecessors at the Met Office Hadley Centre crunched through... [09 May 2008]
The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics
News We are not only providing the CIS in Beijing but also overseas to broadcasters in their office in New York they can have the same experience as if they were in the venues. The Olympics - which open on 8 August - will use more than 70 venues, which... [08 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format. [02 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to tests run by a document standards... [21 Apr 2008]
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