OpenOffice.org launches have been plagued by problems recently. The launch of 3.0 last October resulted in a complete outage of the site which took a little time to resolve. The 3.0.1 bug-fix which we released today is a much more low-profile affair. The launch was planned for 12:00 noon CET, but for some [...]
The blogosphere was set humming this morning by a claim:
Faced with growing threats of free and open source software projects, Microsoft removed OpenOffice.org web site from its search engine results yesterday.
Tests by the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project members showed that Microsoft’s Live Search does seem to go out of its way not to return results from [...]
Like most people with publicly available email addresses, I get lots of spam. Most just goes straight to the bin – but from time to time there’s one that’s so outrageous that it’s worth preserving for posterity:
Microsoft Corporations:
Customer Service
Reference No: ESP-X/M-2810
Batch No: 2009/101/MIC
OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the release of the [...]
Problem: we’ve received a CD full of photographs from our daughter, who’s away doing VSO in the Sudan. We wanted to share them with my mother, who hasn’t any internet, PCs, or technological wizardry. But she does have a DVD player.
Solution: the open-source DVD Slideshow project, which has produced a series of bash scripts to [...]
The launch of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 software on October 13th last year has proved wildly successful, with over 30 million downloads recorded to date via the ‘bouncer’ at download.openoffice.org. So for 2009, the Openoffice.org Marketing Project is focussing more on the other half of its remit – marketing the OpenOffice.org Community. This Community includes developers [...]
As Santa Claus had been good to me and brought me an 8Gb SDHC card, I thought I’d have a go at rebuilding my Eee PC with Ubuntu Linux rather than the factory supplied Xandros.
When I first read about the Eee, I was a bit dubious about the choice of Xandros. However, once I got [...]
