Minnesota study supports open document formats

May 29th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

New York and Minnesota just completed studies into the merits of using open formats. In the Minnesota report, the Office of Enterprise Technology came out in favor of open document ... Read more..

Brits shying away from Microsoft Office

May 14th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | No Comments »

According to InformationWeek, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency is advocating for removing Microsoft Office from the classroom in favor of open-standards compliant office suites like OpenOffice.org. It is good ... Read more..

Netherlands go open source!

December 31st, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Under a new Dutch law, the Dutch government must start using open source software by April 2008. In addition to the greater security and resistance obsolescence, open source software could ... Read more..

Hardware -> software -> standards (platform irrelevance)

October 4th, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

In the beginning, there was hardware. With early computers, operating systems were not really conceived separately from the hardware. Software was hard-coded into computing systems. Soon after, however, hardware became ... Read more..

Document longevity

July 6th, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Last week on the MSBA's SoloSmall list serve, I asked for reasons why people have not gone paperless. To me, one of the most interesting reasons was based on a ... Read more..

Open document format converter for MS Office

June 21st, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Since Microsoft insists on ignoring the international open document format, here are the open document conversion add-ins for Microsoft Office. Read more..