Responding to pressure customers and governments, Microsoft has announced Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will add support for the Open Document Format (ODF), Portable Document Format (PDF), and XML Paper Specification (XPS).
European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused its desktop software market dominance in its effort to get the Office Open XML file formats standardised.
Microsoft's Open Office XML specifications will be scrutinised by government technocrats in Geneva this week to determine if improvements Microsoft has made to it overcome technical problems noted by ISO members last September.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released a standard for the use of biometric authentication at financial institutions but banks are unlikely to invest in the technology.
Microsoft's top executives have promised not to sue open source developers who create non-commercial software based on Microsoft's protocols, but skeptics say it's a ploy to soften its image before the upcoming OOXML vote.
A reader suggested a key test to structural separation to compare shareholder return for BT with that of Telstra, providing a presumptive analysis of whether separation was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing. This was a great idea that I had to try.
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
Macs are banned from many government departments because there aren't any 'approved' applications to encrypt them. So why doesn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs do something about it?
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In the broadband war, it seems, everyone has an opinion and those with a vested interest are playing fast and loose with the truth.
Edward J. Black, CEO of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, discusses the implications of Massachusetts' adoption of the OpenDocument format.
Guidelines for IT governance and project management are being developed by an Australian standards body. Is this what senior management are looking for when making their tech decisions?
Four new versions of Linux have been certified to comply with guidelines set down by the Linux Standard Base.
The World Wide Web Consortium has reached a critical stage in a new standard that governs how developers use forms on the Internet.
Can storage management in the future be as easy as setting a few policies and flicking a switch? We look at the steps needed to get there. Additional reading: Seven steps to data warehouse development
Four new versions of Linux have been certified to comply with guidelines set down by the Linux Standard Base.
Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.
If data security is paramount, the DataTraveler BlackBox is the USB flash drive of choice, despite its relatively high cost.
StarOffice 8 is an impressive upgrade of Sun's bargain productivity suite, and a good buy for small and large businesses since it costs a fraction of the price of its main competitor, Microsoft Office 2003.
Tablets have been around for a while, but with a new breed emerging that rival ordinary laptops, these convertibles could represent the new standard. We examine five of the best.
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