Microsoft: About that Office/Word deadline…ya we missed it.
by
Mike
Posted January 12th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Looking to pick yourself up a fresh copy of Microsoft Office or Word '07 versions? Hope you have a fresh copy backed up somewhere (or know a good torrent) because Microsoft has missed the January 11th deadline. That deadline mind you was the date in which Microsoft had to comply with a court ruling which accused them of infringing on certain XML code within Word/Office '07.
Strolling through Microsoft's online store will currently bombard your ocular cavities with several "Not Available" la...
January 11th ban hammer date for Microsoft Word: Off again. Kind of.
by
Mike
Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 6:18 am
Not even 24 hours ago we heard the news that Microsoft lost their appeal to i4i -- a small XML developers firm -- and that the presiding judge decided to uphold the January 11th ban on Microsoft '07. Yesterday the two most obvious choices for Microsoft were to pay up and forget about it or appeal again, risking losing more money and another court case. Microsoft however is choosing plan c. Plan C is simply selling new versions of Word '03 and '07 without the infringing and "little-used featur...
Microsoft Office ban coming January 11th…again.
by
Mike
Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Fighting a losing battle and getting stuck in a vicious black hole of denial seems to be the name of the game for Microsoft. A month or so back Microsoft found a fresh lawsuit on their doorstep compliments of i4i. The infringing code revolved around Microsoft's use of protected algorithms dealing with the handling of .xml, .docx, and .docm files in Microsoft Office -- more specifically Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007. Not surprisingly Microsoft appealed -- and they lost, with the court ordered O...
Want to make an iPhone app but don’t know how to code?…Try VixML!
by
Mike
Posted January 5th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I'm sure they are many people out there who want to get in on iPhone app development but 1) don't have the time, 2) don't have the patience or 3) don't have the money to quite their day job to take up programming. If any of the three examples are you, a new player has come to the iPhone development platform. It is called VixML and is designed for people who don't know a whole lot about programming. It lets unskilled coders who very little code create some basic iPhone apps. With man...
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