Firefox took large share off Internet Explorer in 2007
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
ITwire brings up the latest figures from French based Internet traffic analyst XiTiMonitor showing that during 2007 Internet Explorer has lost a significant market share in favor of the open source browser Mozilla Firefox. This is great news and it completes the image of an Open Source 2007 year. You can read the whole article…
OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
The last two weeks have seen two new communication channels opened by OpenOffice.org the project. First of them is the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project’s Blog, which aims at sharing news and stories related to OpenOffice.org software and community promotion, and the second one is the OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet, the page that aggregates posts from the personal…
Blog-post of the week: Thank you OpenOffice.org
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org |
Two days ago I discovered an inspiring blog posting on OpenOffice.org which deserves mentioning as it seems to me genuinely true and sincere. This blog (The Kratzers) has a post dated January 27th 2008 titled: Thank You, OpenOffice. The author – a satisfied Microsoft Office user – expresses his pleasant surprise about OpenOffice.org. He outlines…
Sun Microsystems buys MySQL.
| January 17, 2008 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
Well, not long ago, a friend of mine complained that MySQL, the database he is using in his programming, started making changes in their licensing schemes and he was afraid that at some point it will not be free anymore. Today I brought this news to my friend and I surely made him happy: MySQL…
Tutorial: Extract original images from MS-Word .DOC using OpenOffice.org
| November 4, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, OpenOffice.org, Software you should try |
This tutorial shows you how to extract the uncompressed images from a Microsoft Word Document using OpenOffice.org free office suite. You can even extract embedded cliparts (like WMF files) or other vector based graphics embedded in the document, in their original format. This tutorial is inspired by How to extract the images from a .doc…
Live data in your OpenOffice.org Impress slideshow presentations
| October 31, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org, Software you should try |
Are you presenting in conferences graphical charts and figures which continuously change and you have no time to update the slides? All you need is your OpenOffice.org Impress presentation and an active Internet connection to show your audience the live figures your team or your server assembles for you back at home. The data is…
Linux makers should have Windows users in mind
| October 25, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
When creating Linux software and when combining together Linux distributions, keep in mind the Windows user. Many if not all Linux fans would be happy to see their operating system adopted by all computer users in the world. But many tend to forget the very human nature and with this, the nature of a long-time…
Is selling used microsoft office software legal?
| October 21, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese |
Looking through my blog’s web statistics I noticed the other day a Google search result that brought someone to the “Get Legal. Get OpenOffice.org.” campaign page on my blog. This is the right answer I think for the question posed by this visitor to the Google search engine. The exact question was: “Is selling used…
Microsoft is telling you that your Windows XP worths nothing.
| October 21, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, Software you should try |
Microsoft has listed 100 reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista and to leave Windows XP behind. Thanks Microsoft for the list. While reading the list, a Linux user will mark all those reasons and a few more others as “I already have that in my Linux installation“. …and after marking them all, he/she will add:…
Office suites comparison charts
| October 21, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under General, OpenOffice.org |
Looking for a list of office suites available on the market to include in the poll for my blog, I ran across this Office suites comparison charts page on Wikipedia. It’s quite a good place to compare software options when it comes to office suites and it also adds to the competition between the suites.…
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