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April 5th, 2008

OOXML Update: ISO Approved

Finally, results are out and time to move on giants! For those who do not know what Microsoft’s OOXML is, pleas read on…
ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard
Anyway, here’s some links for you to check out about this story:
Microsoft’s Office Open XML now an official ISO standard
Microsoft’s OOXML wins […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

March 27th, 2008

Sun’s Weblog Publisher

Believe it or not you can post a blog entry using OpenOffice.org Writer or StarOffice 8. With Sun’s Weblog Publisher, you can easily create a post or edit and publish your entries to some supported blogging platform including Roller, WordPress, Generic ATOM and Generic MetaWeblog.
This tool is an extension available to make use of the […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

March 27th, 2008

iPhone with Microsoft Office? Why not?

I am not surprised receiving news alert about ‘Microsoft Office on iPhone’ from Fortune’s Big Tech by Jon Fortt.
Microsoft had already been working Apple in providing the Office Suite for Mac with Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (MacBu) which recently launched last January 2008 its Office for Mac 2008.
A team of Microsoft’s Software Engineers examines […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

February 26th, 2008

Office 2008 Update, Delayed Open XML File Format Converter

The release of Office 2008 for Mac last January made many Mac users happy for the update during the Macworld Expo. As a routine to improve new software released from customer feedbacks and suggestions, the update was delayed further until March 11th, 2008. Along with this delay is the release of Open XML File Format […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

February 26th, 2008

Magic Tricks with MS Word/Notepad

Guys, try this one… Just for fun and experimentation.
Over Yahoo! Messenger, my friend forwarded me a couple of tricks to do wit MS Word and Notepad and I would like to share this with you.
Trick #1:
Again this is something funny and can’t be explained… At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why […]

By Jerome Locson -- 8 comments

February 20th, 2008

Try Word Perhect for free…

I know most of us enjoys the Software as a service (SaaS) approach of my software companies, bringing their desktop application online especially for the many office suites today. I know that you own an account at Google Docs, tried Microsoft Office Live, registered for Zoho Online Suite and stumbled on other online suites. All […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

January 18th, 2008

So when will Google Apps add Google Accounting?

I have been closely monitoring how Zoho Online Office Suite and Google Apps/Docs keep its products list updated. So far, Zoho already brought many desktop applications web-based and Google Apps still keeps going in the race. But I stumbled on a website that discusses the possibility of having Google Online Accounting system soon. Yes, indeed […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

January 16th, 2008

A couple of iPhone Word Processing Apps

If you want to be more productive with your iPhone and want to be more of an “on-the-go” writer, try this couple of tools:

 iOffice2u -  is a simple text file reader for your iPhone. To use the app, you need to create a new account which only requires a user name and a password. Then […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment

January 15th, 2008

The Others: Web-based Word Processors Race

We have heard of Google Docs, Zoho Suites, ThinkFree, BuzzWord, Live Documents, and Office Live already as the key players in the web-based word processors race. But, what about the minors? Have you heard of them? Well, I decided to list them here for you to get to know and try them.

gOffice Word Processing - […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

January 14th, 2008

Office Live Small Business gets updated soon…

Microsoft Office Live Small Business announced earlier this week about some exciting updates coming this January til early February. All the upcoming updates comes from users suggestions and comments of the current tool and more so with feature request from them.
The updates includes for the following services: Office Live Basics, Essentials, and Premium. For changes […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

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