http://encephalosponge.com/2007/10/31/noooxml/ Soaking Up Life Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:30:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://encephalosponge.com/2007/10/31/noooxml/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Encephalosponge » Soaking Up Life Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:29:51 +0000 http://ans15.midphase.com/~encebla4/?p=15#comment-123 [...] can continue to have cross-platform competition in the future. We can learn a lot from the mistakes of the past on issues like [...] [...] can continue to have cross-platform competition in the future. We can learn a lot from the mistakes of the past on issues like [...]

]]> http://encephalosponge.com/2007/10/31/noooxml/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Encephalosponge » Blog Archive » Score one for OO.o Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:12:54 +0000 http://ans15.midphase.com/~encebla4/?p=15#comment-61 [...] Finally, someone has developed a plug-in for OpenOffice.org that will allow you to open Microsoft Office 2007 documents in .*x format (e.g. .docx, pptx, etc.). If you’re not familiar, OpenOffice.org is a free software office suite that operates similarly to Microsoft Office except that it’s available on all operating systems, you don’t have to pay a dime for it, and it’s freely modifiable and distributable. The same cannot be said for MS Office ($500 to install on 1 computer). Microsoft Office has been the bane of free software office packages by deciding that instead of abiding by industry and international standards, they would develop their own standards, which everyone should adopt. This is why you should say No to OOXML. [...] [...] Finally, someone has developed a plug-in for OpenOffice.org that will allow you to open Microsoft Office 2007 documents in .*x format (e.g. .docx, pptx, etc.). If you’re not familiar, OpenOffice.org is a free software office suite that operates similarly to Microsoft Office except that it’s available on all operating systems, you don’t have to pay a dime for it, and it’s freely modifiable and distributable. The same cannot be said for MS Office ($500 to install on 1 computer). Microsoft Office has been the bane of free software office packages by deciding that instead of abiding by industry and international standards, they would develop their own standards, which everyone should adopt. This is why you should say No to OOXML. [...]

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