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Quarrel over OOXML rages on
News The open source community is up in arms over implications of Microsoft's Office Open XML standard. Microsoft answers, sort of.
Tags: Office suites
Standards group takes aim at spam
News An influential Internet standards-setting body has begun a close scrutiny of the mounting problem of e-mail spam, in an effort that could have broad-ranging implications for future e-mail use and security.
At Microsoft, what's up? XDocs
News The software maker takes the wraps off a new product intended to turn Office into a data-collection tool.
What metrics: How to measure service development
Insight Selecting the right set of metrics during a development process is never easy. As always, watch out for contention between your developers and client.
Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
News The analyst firm sees no compelling reason to rush into upgrading to the next version of Windows.
Tags: Systems migration, Microsoft Windows, Longhorn, Analyst reports
Microsoft hopes Windows Live finds common ground
News Software maker hopes bundling products, connecting to rival services, will allow it to make headway in online strategy.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
New Office product to simplify forms
News CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday is expected to announce XDocs, which is intended to make it easier for companies to generate and tabulate data using electronic forms.
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