Ina Fried of CNET asked Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer that very question, and elicited an interesting reply:
Fried: “If I ask you who is Microsoft’s biggest competitor now, who would it be?”
Ballmer: “Open…Linux. I don’t want to say open source. Linux, certainly have to go with that…“
I wonder what “Open …” word Steve really had in mind, before [...]

Two long awaited OpenOffice.org developments today

We’ve formally announced the release of version 2.4 (you can find the link to the Press Release on our Press Releases page). With no less than 6 release candidates required to weed out all the ’show stopper’ bugs, this has been a particularly prolonged labour. Again, thanks to the developers, [...]

I decided it was time to try a new theme for my blog. Poking around in the WordPress admin screens, I spotted for the first time a message that my current theme wasn’t widget aware. This naturally sent me off on a hunt around the WordPress site to find out what a Widget is and [...]

With the release of OpenOffice.org 2.4 ‘real soon now’, I’ve just posted a draft Press Release for internal review. Even though this is the last release of the 2 series, it’s still full of goodies, as the new features list on the wiki shows.
Overall, 2.x has been an amazing success story, with an incredible eleven [...]

When the OpenDocument Format (ODF) was promoted to ISO 2660, I gave two cheers – the final cheer was reserved for when Microsoft adopted the standard as the default file format for MS-Office. I also called for independent conformance testing for ODF, something the ODF community has not yet achieved.
So, Microsoft’s announcement today that it [...]