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Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.
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The OpenOffice.org community released version 2.2 last week, including updates to OpenOffice's word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and database software.
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Sun Microsystems will begin releasing significant open-source Java components this year and also will extend the collaborative strategy to the gadget version of the software technology.
Novell has released new software that could boost Linux's glitz and glamour at a time when eye candy is a major feature of rival operating systems.
Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for two critical security flaws, one in Windows and another in the Outlook e-mail client and Exchange mail server.
For years, Microsoft has been trying to add features to Office without them getting in the way of people who already know their way around the software.
Microsoft has come up with a unique solution to the legendary Blue Screen of Death in the next version of Windows. With the release of Longhorn, the Redmond behemoth has added a red screen to face users when their system crashes.
When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer.
A new Firefox extension that lets people customise their experience of the sites they visit is stirring excitement among Web surfers and consternation among security experts.
America Online is testing a Web-based e-mail service that will compete with Yahoo Mail, Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail.
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