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You’ve probably read how Apple slaps developers in the face, Twitter slaps developers in the face, and Adobe slaps intelligent humans in the face. These are all tempests in teapots.
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Category Archives: OpenOffice.org
The Microsoft brand is getting pummeled overseas, in the music industry, and in the server market. Can you even estimate how much good will has been lost? Gates and Ballmer must get indigestion every morning as they scan the headlines on their pocket PCs.
Continue readingThis is how Microsoft gets away with “interoperability” — co-opting proven standards (like XML) and turning them into Microsoft pseudo-standards, which are then set as defaults for the program while offering the real standards as options.
Continue readingMicrosoft is resorting to a Cold War on Open Source and Linux, using fear and uncertainty as it primary weapons — even as key blogs within the organization are telling developers not to worry and be happy. According to Mary … Continue reading
It should come as no surprise to learn that the inventors of the spreadsheet and the first companies to market spreadsheet software were refugees from the Sixties counterculture. How often have you looked at a spreadsheet and thought, what were … Continue reading
The French government is saying no to Microsoft (see “French parliament dumping Windows for Linux” By Christophe Guillemin, Special to CNET News.com). While institutions such as the Minstry of Agriculture have already adopted Linux servers and the gendarmerie uses OpenOffice … Continue reading
Microsoft’s delay in providing Windows Vista to the general marketplace has sparked all manner of criticism and analysis. I’ve addressed a number of questions from reporters and journalists and gathered them here, with paraphrased questions and my responses. Q. People … Continue reading
As a write this in Writely.com (which I’ve used since last November), the “Web. 2.0” word processor served from the Internet to your browser, its developer Upstartle is in the process of being acquired by Google. That’s good news. And … Continue reading
Customers of Microsoft Office have one more reason to consider switching to an alternative before getting hit with a gigantic upgrade to Office 12 (a.k.a. Office 2007), but they may get a taste of this unpleasantness in advance. CNET News.com’s … Continue reading
People are aware of Microsoft’s history of locking customers in with new features at the expense of security, proposing pseudo-open standards, and spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) about its competitors.
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