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Europe doubts Microsoft's 'genuine' interoperability

The European Commission has expressed doubt over Microsoft's announcement claiming a move toward greater interoperability. Read more »

Microsoft hit by interoperability accusations

ECIS has accused Microsoft of acting unfairly, but the software giant says the group is just a front for old foe IBM. Read more »

Office 2007 to support ODF and PDF

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). Read more »

Microsoft releases more XAML details

Microsoft on Tuesday made more technical information available for XAML, a language for designing the user interface of Web and Windows applications. Read more »

Microsoft goes limp as OOXML vote nears

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. Read more »

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Samba: EU made Microsoft talk again

Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit. Read more »

Mozilla accepts Microsoft help

Mozilla has accepted Microsoft's offer of help toward ensuring interoperability between Firefox and the upcoming Vista operating system. Read more »

Web business standard gets thumbs up

A Web standards body has published a series of definitions that could make it easier for big companies to share business documents. Read more »

ODF guerillas rally for document freedom

Twenty-two organisations across 60 countries are taking part in DocumentFreedomDay (DFD) to raise awareness about what happens when formats are no longer supported by proprietary software. Read more »

Microsoft bends on OpenDocument

Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open-source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments. Read more »

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Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates

Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »

Open source vs. open standards

Sun's software czar Jonathan Schwartz writes that the terms are not interchangeable, a point that often gets overlooked. He explains why it pays to read more closely. Read more »

Tools for securing your XML documents

The W3C offers two specifications for securing your XML documents, XML Signature and XML Encryption. Find out which tools can help create secure XML documents that adhere to these standards. Read more »

XMLSpy makes editing XML docs a breeze

XMLSpy 5 is an easy-to-use tool that simplifies the process of manipulating XML documents. This latest release also sports a graphical Web services interface for working with WSDL files. Read more »

Why AOL wants developers to put passion over profit

Edwin Aoki, technology fellow at AOL, speaks about the impact web applications have had in the enterprise and what trends are emerging. Read more »

Microsoft plays open but patent jaws still have teeth

Despite Microsoft's claim it will not sue developers that build free open source software on Microsoft platforms, a caveat leaves a yawning space for its legal teeth to gnash those that commercialise the software. Read more »

Microsoft not yet open for business

The most impressive aspect of Microsoft's statement on Thursday in favour of caring and sharing wasn't in anything the company said. It was the speed at which the world, or that part of it not in a commercial relationship with Microsoft, digested the information and replied: Heard it before. Not good enough. Read more »

Making the switch to XHTML

Learn how to make the switch from HTML to XHTML and take advantage of advanced XHTML features. Read more »

Opera CTO: IE 8 will fail Acid test

Two years ago, the Acid2 test was announced in this column. Acid2 is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly Read more »

Handle DOM streaming protocols with the Remote Events for XML specification

The Remote Events for XML (REX) specification introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defines an XML syntax for the transmission of Document Object Model (DOM) events that are compatible with streaming protocols. Read more »

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Samba gets an inside look at Microsoft documentation

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- A complicated third-party arrangement means that the open-source Samba project will be able to make use of proprietary documents describing Microsoft file-sharing software. Read more »

Feeling fines with Microsoft

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week had Microsoft-related news coming at us from left, right and centre -- fines, launches and more Steve Ballmer than you can handle. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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