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1. How TG Daily is put together

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ...  The evil Dr Spinola is an atheistic old drunkard who hates Crackberrys, Linux, Apple and loves every bit of software made by Microsoft. He eats meat, preferably raw, and freshly killed. They bumped into ...

2. LaBeouf criticizes Nintendo gamers, calls Wii an "amateur console"

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 22 June 2009

   ... Wii to compete with Microsoft's Xbox 360 (Arcade) console.  ...

3. Why Sun makes a whole lot of sense for IBM

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 18 March 2009

   ... could be a true bargain. And we should not forget that IBM may need a strong Sun as well as its technologies as a counterweight to Microsoft.  Wolfgang Gruener is the founder of TG Daily. The opinions ...

4. UPDATED: Nvidia takes gaming into full-3D with stereoscopic glasses

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 08 January 2009

   ... will support 3D Vision. 3D Vision is also the only stereoscopic 3D gaming solution to fully support Nvidia SLI, Nvidia PhysX, and Microsoft DirectX 10 technologies." The glasses use a USB connection ...

5. Microsoft gets behind Open Document Format, Office update in 2009

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 17 December 2008

     Yesterday, Microsoft announced it would put its full support and weight behind the OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) version 1.1 support, adding it to Microsoft Office 2007 with the upcoming service pack ...

6. Sun unveils StarOffice 9 with native Mac OS X support

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 17 November 2008

   ... support for Microsoft Office OOXML files, in addition to the existing ODF integration. There is also an updated look with a new start center and new icons. Apple users get, for the first time, a native ...

7. IBM expands Symphony office suite to Mac OS X

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 05 November 2008

   ... a roadmap for the expansion of office application suite to Macintosh, Ubuntu Linux, OpenOffice 3.0 and Microsoft Office users. IBM said that future generations of Symphony will be developed on the ODF ...

8. OpenOffice 3.0 released, download site overwhelmed

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 13 October 2008

   ... killer features in this release are out-of-the-box import filters for the latest Microsoft Office file formats, enabling OpenOffice 3.0 to read documents saved with Microsoft Office 2007 or 2008 in .docx, ...

9. Microsoft to add PDF, ODF support to Office 2007

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 21 May 2008

     Microsoft announced that it will extend the file format range supported by its Office 2007 package. ODF 1.1, PDF 1.5 and XPS will be added with the next service pack, but the integration of Microsoft’s ...

10. Microsoft takes a deep breath: OOXML now an ISO/IEC standard

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

      It’s official (and no April Fool): Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, used in its Office 2007 suite, has been approved as a standard by a Joint Technical Committee of the International Standardization ...

11. Open Office XML expected to be announced ISO standard this week

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 31 March 2008

    ... results.” Microsoft has aggressively pursued the ISO certification, a status the rival format ODF obtained in May of 2006 . While Microsoft was able to quickly get OOXML approved as a standard (“Ecma-376”) ...

12. US to approve OOXML for ISO standard

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 10 March 2008

    Doug Mahugh, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft specializing in Office client interoperability and the Open XML file format, posted a blog entry on Friday which summarized recent developments for the ...

13. Microsoft to ODF: We want to be friends, really

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 06 March 2008

    Just in case you had any doubts whether Microsoft was serious about its document interoperability intentions or not, the company today announced the Document Interoperability Initiative, which promises ...

14. IBM makes office software available free of charge

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 18 September 2007

    IBM is getting more aggressive in the productivity software arena and is challenging Microsoft with Lotus Symphony, a free office software package that includes three applications covering word processing, ...

15. Google approves of Office Open XML decision by the ISO

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 17 September 2007

    ... that made the format less than ideal, including too much dependency on other Microsoft proprietary formats and the high cost of implementing multiple standards.  It also noted that there was not enough ...

16. StarOffice available free of charge through Google Pack

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 15 August 2007

    ... 8 is compatible with Microsoft Office documents and supports the Open Document Format (ODF). The Google Pack StarOffice weighs in as a 143.3 MB download (up to 210 MB with language packs). StarOffice ...

17. Microsoft convinces TurboLinux to join Open XML-ODF translator project

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Monday, 09 July 2007

    Microsoft announced late Wednesday that TurboLinux will participate in its Open XML-ODF translator project on Sourceforge.net. The translator is expected to serve as a bridge between the Open XML and ODF ...

18. Microsoft partners with Linux company Linspire

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 14 June 2007

    Microsoft is expanding its presence in the Linux arena and has announced a collaboration with Linspire, a company that is offering a consumer-focused Linux-based operating system: For a fee, Linspire ...

19. Microsoft vouches for ODF for ANSI listing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 May 2007

    Microsoft is supporting the rival Open Document Format or ODF to be listed on the American National Standards list. Redmond (WA) - Microsoft is supporting the rival Open Document Format or ODF to be listed ...

20. IBM abuses file format standardization process to limit choice - Microsoft

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 15 February 2007

    Microsoft has fired the next round in a behind-the-scenes battle to establish the next dominant file format for office applications. Microsoft claims that IBM doesn't play nice and tries to block ...

21. Ecma confirms Microsoft's Office Open XML format as standard

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 08 December 2006

    Microsoft has taken the next hurdle on the way to the rollout of its next-generation software package. The approval of Office Open XML (OOXML) as industry standard concludes Microsoft's often seemingly ...

22. OpenOffice opens support for Open XML

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 04 December 2006

    A new advancement for Office clones was reached today, as Novell and Microsoft announced that OpenOffice will receive support for the Open XML platform, a file format developed by Microsoft for the upcoming ...

23. At last, Corel announces support for ODF, Open XML

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 29 November 2006

    ... of ODF today announced that it will update WordPerfect Office to support the XML-based ODF as well as Microsoft's Open Office XML format. Ottawa (ON) - Some decisions take time. Answering the question ...

24. Microsoft's next Office file format reaches final draft status

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 09 October 2006

    Microsoft Blogger Brian Jones today announced that the final draft of Office Open XML, Microsoft's default file format in the upcoming Office 2007 productivity suite has been approved within the framework ...

25. EA grows Godfather game series, launches two new games

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 19 September 2006

    Two new Godfather are joining EA's Corleone Family video game lineup. The publisher announced "The Godfather, The Game" for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console and "The Godfather, Mob Wars" for Sony's Playstation ...

26. Microsoft to offer "bridge" to ODF in Office 2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 06 July 2006

    Microsoft is bending to the forces promoting the Open Document Format (ODF) and announced that it will be offering an open-source add-in for Office 2007 applications that will be able to translate its ...

27. Microsoft to remove PDF support from Office 2007 in wake of Adobe dispute

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 02 June 2006

    Yielding to pressure it says came from Adobe, Microsoft today stated it is removing native support for Adobe's Portable Document Format (also known as Acrobat) from its forthcoming Office 2007 suite. ...

28. IBM demonstrates OpenDocument capability in next Lotus Notes

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 15 May 2006

    ... "Hannover." For the company that at one time shunned ODF, IBM could be the company that makes it a real contender against Microsoft's Office Open XML. Karlsruhe (Germany) - In the latest chapter of what ...

29. Warner, Universal experiment with HD DVD format variations in new releases

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 26 April 2006

    ... of HD DVD titles encoded using Microsoft's VC-1 codec, one of the approved suite of video encoding standards for both formats of high-definition disc. The advantages to VC-1, as Microsoft has touted since ...

30. Burst.com sues Apple over iPod

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 18 April 2006

    ... an armada of lawyers to prepare for battle. The firm has named law firm Hosie McArthur, which won $60 million for the company in a 2005 suit against Microsoft, as its representative in court. The firm ...

31. Low-priced Core Duo-based Mac mini flanked by iPod's new portable speaker

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 28 February 2006

    ... of the living room.' It'll morph into some sort of computer disguised as an entertainment device. Of course, even though Microsoft has been driving the media center market for years, once Apple does it, ...

32. Corel WordPerfect Office X3 follows Microsoft's lead

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 20 January 2006

    With this week's release of the 13th version of Corel WordPerfect, Corel has opted for an evolutionary product that resembles Microsoft Word as much as possible and avoids more dramatic changes such as ...

33. SoCal Linux Expo preview: ODF, KDE4, Asterisk on the agenda

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 18 January 2006

    ... additional insight in the ODF versus Microsoft Open XML debate is expected from Peter Quinn. The former Chief Information Officer for Massachusetts, will lead a workshop on "Open Standards For Government ...

34. Novell to continue using OpenDocument in upcoming distributions

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 17 January 2006

    ... format of the popular Microsoft Office suite and over the past year a few companies and governments have switched away from MS Office to ODF. While proponents of ODF say this prevents vendor lock-in, companies ...

35. IBM adds Open Document support to workplace software

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 December 2005

    ... support for the technology in the upcoming version of its Workplace Managed Client software. ODF is considered to grow into an open-source alternative to proprietary file formats, namely Microsoft's Office ...

36. Microsoft denies preparations to support OpenDoc in Office 12

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 26 October 2005

      A cascade of rumors regarding OpenDocument Format ended today with the final domino in the chain, Microsoft, denying it is making any plans to support ODF in its upcoming Office 12 suite. The story ...

37. ATI announces the new ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 30 September 2002

    ... Inc. "This groundbreaking graphics chip includes Microsoft DirectX 9.0 support, our VIDEOSHADER engine and video compression for an extremely high quality video experience. We created ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 ...