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Brian Jones / Office XML Formats:
Standardizing the Microsoft Office Open XML formats — Today we are making a really important announcement about our XML formats. We are going to bring the Microsoft Office Open XML formats to a standards body with the intention of eventually making the formats an ISO standard.
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Martin LaMonica / ZDNet:
Microsoft to standardize Office formats … Microsoft intends to submit file formats for its new Office 12 applications to the European standards body ECMA International. The company hopes this will allay concern about its level of control over document formats.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Microsoft standardizes Office formats - Jean Paoli interview — I just interviewed Jean Paoli, co-inventor of XML (he usually works a few doors down from my office in building 18, so we talk often). He has been bragging to me for days now about what we just announced 22 minutes ago …
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Don Dodge on The Next …
Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Microsoft to give Office access to rivals — Microsoft will on Tuesday announce it is opening up access to its Office file formats to competitors, as part of a move to ensure the software giant does not lose lucrative government markets for its Office software.
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MacSlash
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Sharing at so many levels! — Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE, which stands for Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML. — In 2005, RSS-based aggregators have been around for six years. They come in all sizes and shapes, some inspired by mail readers, others are …
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Danny Ayers, Raw Blog, InsideMicrosoft, CrunchNotes, WeBreakStuff, Bink.nu, Alex Barnett blog, TechCrunch and John Palfrey
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Ray Ozzie:
Really Simple Sharing — One of the great things about once again having an active blog is that it enables me to engage in discussion about concepts I'm excited about, and that I'm working on, before they're fully-baked and while they could benefit from others' involvement.
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Russell Beattie Notebook, Darwinian Web, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, Software Only, Paul Kedrosky's …, Hellonline, business2blog, Flashpoint, Lorcan Dempsey's weblog, Between the Lines, Microsoft Watch, Paul Mooney, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, RatcliffeBlog, Todd Bishop's Microsoft …, rexblog.com, franklinmint.fm and Scobleizer
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
SSE - Simple Sharing Extensions - A Microsoft innovation on RSS — Ray Ozzie and the team at Microsoft is working on an exciting new innovation to RSS called SSE, Simple Sharing Extensions. There is a draft specification in place, and sample code will be ready soon.
Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:The Second Coming of Content and RSS Feeds
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The Shifted Librarian
EFF: Breaking News:
EFF Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Sony BMG — Company Should Repair Damage to Customers Caused by CD Software — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with two leading national class action law firms, today filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG, demanding that the company repair …
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
EFF, Texas Attorney General Sue Sony — Greg Abbott, the attorney general for Texas, today filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment, alleging that its controversial (and now recalled) "XCP" anti-piracy software violates the state's anti-spyware and consumer protection laws.
Peter Lewis / CNN:
Should you wait for the PS3? — Even if the Xbox 360 is a rousing success, Sony will likely still dominate the console universe. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - More than 90 million PlayStation 2 consoles have been sold worldwide since the PS2's debut in 2000, compared with some 25 million Microsoft Xboxes sold since 2001.
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Kotaku
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Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
New AT&T Logo Analysis — Yeah, I think after careful analysis, consideration, comparision and contemplation, I can only come to one conclusion about the new AT&T logo: It sucks. — Not only do I just not like the amateur-looking new design, it's made even worse when you consider the history …
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Om Malik
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John Hudson / Wired News:
Monster Scope to Dwarf Rivals — Astronomers are preparing to build the world's largest telescope that could be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble and will peer back to the very beginning of the universe. — The new TMT (Thirty-Meter Telescope) will be the first of a new generation …
Red Herring:
Xbox 360 Starts Console War — Microsoft's Xbox challenges Sony, and charges into the connected living room. — Surrounded by a gaggle of video game geeks and bathed in the neon green glow of a dozen flat-screens running games on Microsoft's new Xbox 360, J. Allard looks, for a brief moment, at rest.
Marc Perton / Download Squad:
Windows at 20: 20 things you didn't know about Windows 1.0 — Believe it or not, it's exactly 20 years since Microsoft released Windows 1.0. And, although the company is being fairly low-key in its celebrations of the event (except in Japan), I think it's worth commemorating.
