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OpenOffice 3.0 a fresh blow for Microsoft |
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Written by Jason Wallwork
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Monday, 01 December 2008 17:28 |
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 The Sydney Morning Herald has some nice things to say about the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 suite:
Anyone familiar with Microsoft 2003 or below should be able to jump straight into OpenOffice with minimal, if any, training. If you've been thinking about taking the plunge into Microsoft Office 2007 (or 2008 on the Mac), which does require training because of significant interface changes, you should be evaluating OpenOffice as well. Also consider its cousin, StarOffice 9.0 (sun.com/star), a version of OpenOffice with business-grade support offered by Sun Microsystems. If you're trying to maintain compatibility with MS Office users, it's easy to set OpenOffice to save documents in MS formats by default. As of OpenOffice 3.0, the suite was meant to be compatible with Microsoft's new Office Open XML document formats, such as .docx and pptx.
The full article can be read here. There's also a couple of interesting comparisons of Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org here and here. Interesting and maybe useful note:: Quite a few people in the media seem to get this wrong. It's not really called OpenOffice. It's OpenOffice.org. Somebody else owns the trademark for the phrase OpenOffice. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 01 December 2008 17:29 |
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Fastest Computers run Linux |
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Written by Jason Wallwork
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Friday, 28 November 2008 19:13 |
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 Bill passed along this article from PC World magazine:
“As Jay Lyman, an analyst at The 451 Group points out, Linux is only growing stronger in supercomputing. "When considered as the primary OS or part of a mixed-OS supersystem, Linux is now present in 469 of the supercomputer sites, 93.8% of the Top500 list. This represents about 10 more sites than in November 2007, when Linux had presence in 91.8% of the systems. In fact, Linux is the only operating system that managed gains in the November 2008 list.”
Read the full article here. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 28 November 2008 19:13 |
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Google unveils their new web browser |
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Written by Jason Wallwork
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 05:07 |
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 Users for the Windows operating system can now download a new entry into the browser wars - Chrome. Developed by Google from the ground up using the Webkit platform, it has some interesting new features, mainly from a user interface standpoint, but also performance increases and improved stability. Linux and Mac versions are coming. Some specifics:
- Google Chrome will use tabs at the top of the browser and each 'tab' will have its own location bar.
- Each tab will run in its own process so if a misbehaving website crashes, only the tab will die, not the entire web browser.
- Closing tabs will free up the memory they use, always, so less crashes related to memory leaks.
- And every tab will run in its own 'sandbox', preventing website vulnerabilities from reading/writing to other tabs or the operating system.
- There will be a privacy mode allowing you run one or several tabs in a mode that won't keep history or cookies after it's closed.
Their comic book , yes, you heard that right, explains more about the browser. There are also lots of screenshots of the browser in action here. It's now available at http://www.google.com/chrome. |
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