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..

Open standards in legal software

April 28th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The world is going the way of open standards. Even Microsoft, long a proponent of closed, proprietary standards, just got finished pushing and shoving its flawed OOXML document standard (hint: ... Read more..

Microsoft announces “new interoperability;” EU calls bullshit

February 22nd, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Today Microsoft announced a "new interoperability." Microsoft promised, among other things, to open up cooperation with open source software, including distributing its APIs for its software and allowing open-source project ... 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..