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EU investigation into Open XML vote still ongoing
News European antitrust regulators sent letters earlier in the year to European standards bodies exploring how the standards-setting process was working.
Tags: Open source, XML
Who is draining your file server storage space?
Techguide The File Server Resource Manager feature in Windows Server 2003 helps system administrators keep track and set storage quotas.
Office XP now runs on Linux
News Users are now able to run Office XP on Linux, following the release of a commercial application that allows the package to run on the open source operating system.
Code Contracts makes validation easy and accurate
Techguide Code Contracts allows developers to create validation logic within their methods and classes without needing to write a lot of if/then statements.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Code, C, Method, XML file, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, network management, business logic, blogging
Strong password management for the mobile user
Techguide Truly strong passwords are necessary to protect our information, but they can be a pain to generate, manage, and access globally. Check out two free online tools that can help.
Tags: Mobile, PC security, Authentication and encryption, Data security, Security applications/tools, ASCII, Password, Strong Password, XML file, Xecrets
Microsoft fixes 28 flaws; 6 are critical
News Redmond issues eight patches that affect Visual Basic 6, Internet Explorer, Word, Excel, Windows Search, SharePoint, and Windows Media Components.
Tags: Business applications, Security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Vulnerability, Bulletin, Apple Macintosh, Flaw, Update, Microsoft Windows Server
Microsoft releases Office 2010 details, test code
News At partner conference, Microsoft kicks off invitation-only preview of desktop parts of new Office. Access to browser-based versions will have to wait, however.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Web Browser, Microsoft PowerPoint, volume-license, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office
Microsoft muscles in on OpenDocument group
News The software giant has joined a group involved in the ISO standardisation process for OpenDocument, but claims its presence in the group "will have no impact on the voting".
Tags: XML, Office suites, Web services, Open source
Microsoft document formats gain favor
Techguide Massachusetts has proposed changing its standards policy to make room for Microsoft Office document formats.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Read an XML file from SQL Server
Techguide Learn how you can join XML documents to SQL tables without importing the data, and then use the result to INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE for whatever you please.
Microsoft document formats gain Mass. favor
News Proposed technical guidelines include Microsoft's Office Open XML on the list of "open format" standards.
Tags: Office suites, Microsoft Office
Use XML in Access 2002 to generate Web-enabled reports
Insight Access 2002's ability to export data in XML format can come in handy when you have to create Web-ready files for viewing outside your client's office. Here's how this time- and sanity-saving tool works.
Microsoft starts testing Office 2008 for Mac
News The new version, due out later this year, is the first to run natively on Intel-based Macs and also supports new XML-based file formats.
Tags: Mac OS, Microsoft Office
Microsoft updates new Mac Office
News The company says the first update to Office 2008 for Mac adds stability and performance improvements and fixes certain security vulnerabilities.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Mac OS
StarOffice gains native Mac support
News The latest version of Sun's cut-rate productivity suite can also read--but not write--to the latest Office file formats.
Tags: Office suites, Mac OS, StarOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Google Inc., Office Open XML, Apple Macintosh, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Office
