Easter Links
OOo Postings, Open Standards, OOXML, OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument Format
Today the Easter Bunny (that means me on this blog), who’s very early because it’s Good Friday but also the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad and the first day of Spring, is bringing you some links for you to read this week-end.
- Rick Jelliffe gets a cold shower by the SQL standard guru. Boy, that must have frozen you up down there. And besides, it’s now Fall season for you. Too bad, huh?
- “Dear Microsoft Office“, a great blog by Julie Watson. That girl has many tricks up her sleeves when it comes to Office suite issues and file format troubles. Way to go, Julie!
- The incredible adventure of the Malaysian who turned out to be an U.S citizen. That happens sometimes with Microsoft employees…
- A shape is a shape is a shape? It’s not a typo, it’s just the Sun OpenOffice.org team who has some problems with OOXML. I’m sure it’s because they’re biased. Anybody who stands against OOXML (also known as the “Everlasting Truth”) should be sentenced to jail! I’m writing this to deliberately confuse the Microsofties I will meet Tuesday at the Afnor. I know they’re reading my blog. It’s part of my secret plan. Mwuhahahaha..
- Talking about OpenOffice.org, here’s a couple of interesting news about the free and standards-compliant office suite. Take a look here and there.
- The invincible John McCreesh strikes again and has now created a Native-Language Confederation Planet for our reading pleasure. Thank you a lot, and happy Easter, John!
Charles @ March 21, 2008
Thanks for that nice plug, Charles. I’m not a developer, a file format expert, or an XML expert. I’m a software deployment project manager for a company whose primary business is not I.T. I love my company. As sappy as it may sound, I am constantly amazed at what our non-I.T. employees accomplish (after all, they’re the people that make the money that pays my salary… I’m just overhead!) At the end of the day, I just want Microsoft to fix their product, so that my Non-I.T. end-users can keep getting my company’s “real” work done with as little disruption as possible when we migrate them to Office 2007. Is that too much to ask?
p.s.
In light of it being the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, I should have concluded my comment with:
Will Microsoft fix Office 2007? Enshallah!