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Zoho Office for Microsoft Sharepoint

this will definitely open some doors for Zoho

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june 2009 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog / dinosaurs+mice, HPUX+Linux, OOo+google office, aka the Innovator’s Dilemma

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

"This is a smartish move by Microsoft. It will make, thanks to Miguel's prescience, MS Office available on the GNU/Linux desktop. However it will cost Microsoft a fortune in server hardware and electricity, and there are formidable problems around metering and managing the live service, particularly against a leaner, simpler free (beer) rival in Google. Of course, as soon as the half of computer users with laptops go dis-connected, or catch a flight (when can we expect high-bandwidth, low latency transatlantic internet services ? or even ubiquitous in-seat power ?) - they will have to use OpenOffice anyway, oh, and their portable hardware will need to be beefy enough to be capable of running that, so - why not author it there in the first place ?" - Michael Meeks view on the hosted Office release

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november 2008 by sogrady

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OpenOffice.org Power Tools [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]

"My absolute favourite add-on is the Presenter Console. This adds a new display mode to Impress so that, when using an external monitor (i.e. a projector) the laptop screen differs from the external display. While the audience sees the slides being presented, the presenter sees the slide sequence, speaker notes and a timer and is able to navigate directly to slides if necessary. It's a familiar function with some other packages but it revolutionises Impress as a presentation tool and I have been using it constantly since it first appeared." - i am not a fan of Impress, but this would potentially be very useful

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september 2008 by sogrady

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Red Hat Summit panel: Who 'won' OOXML battle? | InfoWorld | News | 2008-06-19 | By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service

let me get this straight: the MSFT guy said ODF won? anyone there care to provide some context?

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june 2008 by sogrady

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Free online calendar publishing, part 1: Outlook « Jon Udell

kudos to Jon for explaining this, but it's still _way_ too hard for most users. and doesn't really help people work with you. which is why we use a service (that i hope will officially launch at some point).

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may 2008 by sogrady

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Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds) - Joel on Software

an interesting perspective on the Microsoft Office file format complexity question

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february 2008 by sogrady

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The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office

focusing on the features that get used is a much better play than feature parity, which is neverending and a fool's errand

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february 2008 by sogrady

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ConsortiumInfo.org - At a Loss for Words

note to self: i need a briefing on the "blocking file formats" thing when i get back. like Andy, i'm perplexed

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The Web 2.0 Office Suite

"If you do a little math the data also shows that of those that actually did use an online office suite 70% have continued to use it in one form or another." - my usage of online is steadily increasing. also, we're now using it w/ clients, who love it.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Malte Timmermann's Blog

nice to see

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december 2007 by sogrady

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» Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS-Office’s strengths | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com

Berlind's thoughts on the Office Live Workspace news, in the context of Google Apps

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december 2007 by sogrady

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isabel wang's blog: The one-way web, or Microsoft Office vs the Internet

"It doesn't have to be this way, does it? I think the first step towards widespread SaaS adoption is helping people shake off their irrational MS Office dependence." - users will definitely have to meet the apps halfway

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Erwin's StarOffice Tango

this is excellent news indeed: ODF support for OS X fiends like Cote

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Matusow's Blog : Independent Implementations of Open XML

Jason's right, the comments attached to this post - including those from Andy Updegrove - are very educational. read them all, whether you come down on the OOXML or ODF side of the fence.

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september 2007 by sogrady

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Microsoft swipes at Google Apps | Tech News on ZDNet

interesting. Microsoft must be seeing substantial incursions into their territory more quickly than i'd anticipated. some of the objections are quite legitimate, but several are curious. if i was MSFT, i would not be attacking on "release schedules"

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september 2007 by sogrady

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Harmonization by augmenting ODF with OOXML elements - O'Reilly XML Blog

couple of people have sent this along, and it's a very interesting idea; be interesting to see how the namespace embedding affected performance. wondering too if this isn't the approach some of the plugin providers have taken.

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september 2007 by sogrady

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Once More unto the Breach: Microsoft's Failures with the OOXML Standard

stinging indictment of OOXML's implementability by Stephe

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september 2007 by sogrady

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Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?

Mark Shuttleworth urges users to vote for a single ISO document format: as someone who believes that multiple formats are in the best interests of vendors but not users, i agree.

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august 2007 by sogrady

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What Do You Use Google Docs for?

in particular, note the comments

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august 2007 by sogrady

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Google Docs vs. the Hassle of Microsoft Office and Friends (by Jeremy Zawodny)

and so it begins...

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july 2007 by sogrady

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» Cheap Software Solutions For Freelancers

interesting to see things like OO.o and Google Docs from a non-technologists perspective (fully agree on the Impress critique, incidentally)

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july 2007 by sogrady

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Zoho vs Google Docs

interesting comparison of Zoho's apps vs Google's. the net? Zoho's has more, and their apps are more richly functional, while Google's are more stable and performant.

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july 2007 by sogrady

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Simon Phipps, SunMink: ODF Plug-in for MS Office Released

"I'm pleased to say that the Sun ODF Plug-In for MS Office has now been officially released." - will have to give this a whirl

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july 2007 by sogrady

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Crushed by the Wheels of Industry | Tech News on ZDNet

half a dozen folks pointed me over here, and honestly, i can see why - cut and paste don't work? seriously?

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may 2007 by sogrady

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This might interest you -- bportlock's comment on "MS Office 2007 versus Open Office 2.2 shootout" | TalkBack on ZDNet

here we go again: Ou's apparently still using that absurd several hundred megabyte file for his testing - why, i wonder?

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Where neo-nomads' ideas percolate / New 'bedouins' transform a laptop, cell phone and coffeehouse into their office

solid piece on the emerging mobile working options, though slightly neglectful of co-op office arrangements (of which there are several in SF from what i hear) - lots of my work is done at coffee shops, cafes and the like

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs : Zoho Doubles Customer Count in 5 Months, Racing Google Apps to 1 Million User Mark

i'm a bit skeptical of Zoho's ability to threaten Google here simply because i'd rather have a vendor focus heavily on 2 or 3 apps i use most, but no question that Zoho's innovating: Notebook is terrific

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march 2007 by sogrady

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hivecoop / FAQ

this is the co-op setup i mentioned a while back; should be interesting

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Google Apps finally released at Pensieri di un lunatico minore

Chris says interesting, and i agree

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Stefan Didak's Home Office

drool doesn't quite convey my sentiments here

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february 2007 by sogrady

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The NOSE: Information Technology in Higher Education: ODF Under Consideration in Minnesota and Texas

Al looks at the possibility that Texas and Minnesota would move to ODF - or OOXML

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february 2007 by sogrady

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ConsortiumInfo.org - OOXML and ISO: Fact and Fancy

great Q&A regarding an important phase in the ISO lifecycle for OOXML, and don't let Andy's modesty fool you - his Q&A's are infinitely better than my own ;) - long live the Q&A

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Web Host Industry Review | theWHIR Blogs : Google Apps for Domains to Become Paid Service in "Coming Weeks"

interesting; we'd have to consider this, b/c Google Calendar in particular is so much more accessible than Zimbra

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february 2007 by sogrady

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opendocument.foundation - The OpenDocument Foundation

will be testing this out on our RedMonk report templates which are fairly heavily complex in terms of formatting

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Microsoft fights Gmail in the workplace | APC Magazine

"Microsoft is fighting the trend for corporate employees to duck IT policies and auto-forward all their work email to Gmail." - just talked to someone the other day who's doing this

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Mac Mojo : Converters Coming! Free and (Fairly) Fast.

"There will be a delta between general availability of Win Office (January) and converters from MacBU (expected late March/early April." - hadn't seen this version of the story

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december 2006 by sogrady

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» Google Toolbar V3 with Google Docs integration | Googling Google | ZDNet.com

very interesting: continue to get the feeling that Google's the piranha to Microsoft's tapir - they continue to take little bites here and there, and they're beginning to add up

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Monkey Bites

"Microsoft’s VoIP will use the Session Initiation Protocol, the standard signaling protocol for internet conferencing and telephony, unlike Skype for instance, which uses its own proprietary network." - this is definitely an area to watch closely

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Feld Thoughts

Office's dominance isn't going anywhere, true, but really, where can it go from here?

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Brian Jones: Open XML Formats : They’re bringing out the big guns

Microsoft's Brian Jones responds to some of the Open XML critiques from Phipps, Sutor & Weir

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Zimbra: 4 Million Paid Mailboxes and Counting

math seems a bit fuzzy here, but good news for Zimbra; i wonder though if Kirkipatrick spoke with Arrington about this, as the latter hammered Zimbra pretty good in the past

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Google office destined to be mashed - Computer Business Review

"Rochelle said that Google has not yet considered any monetization activities" - i find this hard to believe; if true, it's silly

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Cost and facilities | Hat Factory

would love to see one of these spring up in Denver; i'd use it

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Stephen O'Grady on Office 2.0

Dare didn't care for one of my Office 2.0 reaction pieces, apparently due to the lack of granularity

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets

repent, the hour of Google Office is nigh

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Office Space with the Best Views in Portland

just what RedMonk needs - sick office space in Portland (the *real* Portland, not that false Portland on the West Coast ;)

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october 2006 by sogrady

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halfnote

need to give this a whirl; don't know if it'll replace Writely, but the encryption is an interesting angle

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Ted Leung on the air : Offices and Aerons

first Kathy and now Ted describe the benefits of nice office furniture; to each their own, but i'm quite happy with my $65 Staples Aeron clone - if i've got a couple of hundred dollars to spend, i'd rather get better hardware

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

"It's pretty astounding that OO.o on Win32 takes 13 seconds to cold start, where MSWord takes ~3 seconds; in fact Word can cold-start quicker than we can warm-start, a little depressing." - Novell's Michael Meeks comments on the OO.o boot time

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Schwieb » Blog Archive » Saying goodbye to Visual Basic

i hadn't seen this, but trs81 passed along the link in IRC this morning; very interesting explanation of how challenging some of the porting would/could be - and the impacts that has

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august 2006 by sogrady

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hello to you!: Stuart Cohen of OSDL Predicts: Microsoft Office on Linux. Oh boy.

best take i've seen yet on the Offce on Linux prognostication; i think Daniel overstates the willingness of folks to use Office (many might be compelled to anyway), but otherwise this is about where i come down

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august 2006 by sogrady

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digg - Microsoft Office Coming To Linux?

cohen said the same thing around this time last year, and i didn't buy it then and don't buy it now; there's very little business justification for such a move, and thus no incentive - if it did happen though, and i could get ODF support, i'd use it

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august 2006 by sogrady

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An Antic Disposition: Traduttore, Traditore

the most detailed explanation of the shortcomings of Microsoft's ODF plugin i've seen yet; let's hope they're addressed, either by this plugin or an alternative

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july 2006 by sogrady

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Google backs OpenDocument format

interesting addition to the ODF alliance; have received a couple of calls on this already

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july 2006 by sogrady

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Notes2Self.net : ODF Add-In - Screenshots

screenshots of the ODF plugin

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july 2006 by sogrady

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Heed Microsoft's move, adopt OpenDocument: OSIA: ZDNet Australia: News: Software

Australia sees Microsoft's decision as a validation of ODF - we'll see more and more of this, i think

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july 2006 by sogrady

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SourceForge.net: ODF Add-in for Word 2007

the project that's got everyone talking: adding ODF support to Word 2007

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july 2006 by sogrady

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Directions & Map - Brunswick Business Center

looks like a pretty solid potential office option

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june 2006 by sogrady

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Brian Jones: Open XML Formats : Legal issues around PDF support

i haven't talked to Adobe about this news yet, but the last i had spoken with them they claimed to be *for* Microsoft supporting PDF

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june 2006 by sogrady

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Marketplace: One app closer to world domination

NPR, June 6th, 2006

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june 2006 by sogrady

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Gotzeblogged: ODF in Denmark

some adoption news re: ODF in Denmark (via James)

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Portland Offices Great Location / Lots of perks

another decent summer office option; these guys emailed me and seem pretty cool

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Join the Best Shared Office Space in Portland

decent, if a bit pricy, office option for this summer; something closer to home would be better, but i wouldn't mind being in the Old Port either

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Consortiuminfo.org - ODF Plug-ins and a Microsoft Promise of Cooperation

Matusow's commentary is going to generate a lot of talk, i'm sure

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may 2006 by sogrady

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GROKLAW

an ODF plugin for Microsoft Word? this would be a Very Big Deal, IMO, as it would allow organizations to embrace ODF while continuing to leverage their investments in Office

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may 2006 by sogrady

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MDB Tools - Unlocking Your Data

project to free up Access data

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april 2006 by sogrady

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eighty-eight miles per hour » Blog Archive » Fighting on New Ground

Gnome Office: not the first time i've heard it proposed, nor the only group eyeing that territory - will be interested to see where office goes on the open source platform

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march 2006 by sogrady

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Erwin's StarOffice Tango

some interesting feedback from a disabled user of Microsoft technologies - give it a read

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february 2006 by sogrady

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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - WordPerfect to Support Microsoft Office Open XML Formats

interesting news, but i agree with the commenter: this was pretty much expected from Corel

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january 2006 by sogrady

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Consortiuminfo.org Standards Blog

great summary and update from Andy on where ODF is vis a vis MA