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Inconsistent Microsoft Office

Monday, March 24, 2008

I must confess to be looking forward to the release of OpenOffice 3.0, with its all of its native Aqua glory.
About a month ago, I got tired of waiting NeoOffice's ridiculously long load times for networked files, and switched to Microsoft Office 2008. Office 2008 and its Windows counterpart, Office 2007, use Microsoft's new OOXML [...]

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The Trouble with OpenOffice.org

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

TechWorld reports that OpenOffice.org will soon be bundled with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning, but I think that the news that OpenOffice plans to support plugins to extends its feature set is just as important.
OpenOffice will get "Firefox-like" extension capabilities by version 2.0.4, due this month, Schulz said. The suite's existing extensions platform will get a [...]

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Free (LGPL) Icons

Sunday, July 31, 2005

I was looking for a collection of free (preferably GPL-licensed) icons to use for a program I am developing. After some searching, I eventually found an article from Novell describing icons made by Ximian (a Novell subsidiary) for OpenOffice. However, the icons made by Ximian, like many icons in Linux, are in PNG format. Windows [...]

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