File formats

The world wisens up about OOXML

Submitted by Damien on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 3:29pm

The world is finally realizing that Microsoft’s OOXML “format” is the old dog’s usual tricks - incomplete, relies heavily on undocumented tricks to work, which puts full control back in their hands. This week both Brazil and India have decided to vote “no” at the upcoming ISO meeting where OOXML’ s fate will be decided.

NeoOffice 2.1 supports Office2007 files!

Submitted by Damien on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 7:09pm

NeoOffice 2.1, the latest release of the Mac OSX port of OpenOffice.org, is one of the first non-Microsoft applications on the market that can read & write the new Open XML format as used in Microsoft's Office 2007. Excellent news for all Mac fans in the audience.

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Need to post Powerpoint files online? Use FlashPaper!

Submitted by Damien on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 9:07pm

At work someone needed to be able to post Powerpoint files online that:

had fancy fonts embedded,
created a read-only file (as best we could)
didn't require any additional software for people to view it.

What did we choose? FlashPaper from Adobe! Poi-fect! In addition to being able to save a Flash (SWF) file it can also save out PDFs and works great.

HD-DVD has won the high-def media format war?

Submitted by Damien on Fri, 01/12/2007 - 2:50am

It appears that HD-DVD will win the high-def media format war, if history is anything to go by.

History lesson: In the 1980's Sony's Betamax tape standard lost out to JVC's competing and technically inferior VHS tape standard primarily due to the adult entertainment industry's backing of the latter's lower production and media & equipment costs.

While Las Vegas's played host to 2007's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), down the street was the adult entertainment industry's annual convention wh

MSFT's new Zune incompatible with Plays For Sure

Submitted by Damien on Tue, 11/07/2006 - 7:04pm

In 2005 (IIRC) Microsoft released a media initiative called Plays For Sure along with a number of both device manufacturers and online music stores. The idea was that you would be able to buy any number of devices from different companies, then buy music from different stores and be sure the music would work with the player.

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