Do you know about Ajax? (Not the detergent.) Ajax enables developers to put together Web applications that rival the best desktop applications. An excerpt from a CNET report by Martin LaMonica, “AJAX gives software a fresh look“: Over the years, … Continue reading
The controversy surrounding the decision in Massachusetts to jettison Microsoft Office has government analysts speculating on how difficult it will be to make the transition from Office to, say, OpenOffice.org. But at least one government customer of the free OpenOffice.org … Continue reading
Internet Explorer and Firefox are vulnerable on Windows. This is not surprising; the question is, which is worse? ZDNet‘s George Ou took a close look at the numbers — measuring the vulnerability of the programs themselves, and how quickly the … Continue reading
At first glance, my reaction to Microsoft’s pre-announced, pre-Beta version of Office 12 was, once again, “god help us, we’re in the hands of engineers.” They’ve put a prettier face on the monster, but it’s still a monster. You won’t … Continue reading
Here are some opinions of the recent Microsoft reorganization from the blogosphere: Microsoft Positioning Itself Against Google Alec Saunders in Microsoft Reorg points out that “folding MSN into the platforms group is explicitly placing it where it can be most … Continue reading
In the course of researching my book Just Say No to Microsoft, I wasted considerable time pouring through the Microsoft humor sites looking at Bill Gates pie-in-the-face videos (here’s one), silly cartoons, jokes, fake news stories, and even a Bill … Continue reading
Tim Bray’s blog ongoing offers some insight into the controversies surrounding compatibility with the OpenDocument standard based on XML. In ongoing · Apple File Formats he writes: “The whole world has been giving Microsoft a hard time over their Office … Continue reading
Internet Explorer is still massively flawed, but if Firefox, the most popular alternative, becomes too popular, won’t it also become more vulnerable to attacks? In Mozilla faces the curse of popularity, ZDNet‘s Dana Blankenhorn rephrases the question: “Is open source … Continue reading
You can be proud as you walk Boston’s Freedom Trail today, because inside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts government buildings you pass, patriots are working on a new kind of freedom. They’re dumping boxes of Microsoft Office in Boston Harbor and … Continue reading
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta 2 is a significant improvement, although as of this writing it is still unstable and requires more bug fixes. It now looks and behaves like any other application — on Windows XP it looks more like Office … Continue reading