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Microsoft Details Open Document Format Support For OfficeOpen in New Window
"With the release of documentation Tuesday describing the company's implementation of the Open Document Format in Office 2007 Service Pack 2, Microsoft continues to deliver tangible results of a se read more »
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A look at the Open Virtualization Format SpecificationOpen in New Window
Denise Dubie writes on the Open Virtualization Format Specification which will be used across virtualization providers to package and distribute vm's and allow for change management. read more »
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Protocol Buffers: Our open source data interchange formatOpen in New Window
Chris DiBona, GoogleOpen Source Programs Manager writes, "Today we have something special for all you coders: we're releasing one of our most widely-used internal development tools. We call it "Protocol Buffers." It's the way we encode almost any sort of structured information which needs to be passed across the network or stored on disk." read more »
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Korean music format MT9 tries to replace MP3 - with a karaoke twistOpen in New Window
"Yet another format is attempting to replace MP3 as the standard for digital music, but can MT9 really succeed where others have failed for a decade - even with its advanced features?" read more »
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ODFDOM - the new opensourced multi-tiered API for the ISO OpenDocument FormatOpen in New Window
"ODFDOM is the name of the upcoming free OpenDocument framework sponsored by Sun Microsystems Inc. It will be the next evolutionary step after AODL and Odf4j." writes Svante Schubert. read more »
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N.Y.'s CIO Urges Interoperable, Vendor-Neutral Document FormatOpen in New Window
K.C. Jones writes, "New York state should ensure openness, vendor neutrality, and interoperability for its electronic records, a state government report said..." read more »
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Microsoft expands Office format support - to include ODFOpen in New Window
"After a lot of give-and-take and strum-and-drang over OOXML, Microsoft is expanding support of document formats." read more »
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Sony CEO wants to go back in time, avert high-def format warOpen in New Window
Jacqui Cheng over at Ars Technica reports on recent comments made by Sony's CEO Howard Stringer indicating his regrets that he didn't work harder along with other vendors to create one unified hi-d read more »
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