June 4, 2007
Is Microsoft a real bully
Wired
Scot Gilbertson asks if Microsoft bullying can defect ODF legislation.
“Microsoft has successfully defeated a number of attempts to mandate ODF format documents for official U.S. State documents. Thanks to heavy lobbying by the Redmond giant, bills in California, Connecticut, Florida, Texas and Oregon have all been shelved, stalled indefinitely or tossed out the window entirely.”
Computing for the accident prone
News.com
Erica Ogg looks at an extremely unique notebook computer.
”Mobile computing can be a haphazard business, and new notebooks from General Dynamics and Panasonic give their owners permission to drop them (from a reasonable distance) as often as they like.”
Word is rejected
IT Wire
Stan Beer of the Beer Files says Word 2007 documents were rejected by leading science journals.
“When I first read a blog pointed to by nerd news aggregator Slashdot that two of the world’s leading science journals are rejecting document submissions in Word 2007, I was mildly intrigued. When I discovered that not even Word 2007 documents saved in earlier version Microsoft Word formats would accepted, my interest level shot through the roof.”
