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An Antic Disposition: Giving the Finger to the DIS 29500 Appellants
“The news broke on Friday, with the ISO press release, and additional coverage and analysis by Andy Updegrove and on Groklaw. But it would be remiss if I did not share a few details on how, true to form, the end of this DIS 29500 process was botched.”
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Microsoft fighting cognitive lock-in as users hold on to XP
“A further indication may come from InfoWorld, which suggests that over a third of what it terms “enterprise class” users are exercising the downgrade option. InfoWorld provides a performance monitoring tool, called Sentinel, that reports in with data about a system’s configuration and operation, allowing the community to analyze the data and detect trends. The InfoWorld staff combed the data for hardware that’s new enough to have shipped after Vista had been preinstalled, and found that 35 percent of it was actually running XP.”
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An Introduction To Open Sim: the “Apache of Virtual Worlds” | OStatic
“You’ve probably read a bit about Open Sim, the BSD-licensed virtual world server, and recent news that IBM and Linden Lab are working to make Second Life and Open Sim interoperable. Besides that project, what’s Open Sim about, who’s working on it, what are they doing with it, and how do you get involved as a developer and participant? Here’s a starter’s guide, created with the help of Tish Shute, whose virtual world blog UgoTrade is an indispensable resource on the latest in Open Sim news.”
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It appears the ISO has rejected the appeals. I was reading here
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080817-iso-procedural-shortcuts-ok-office-openxml-appeal-denied.html
and note the not-too-veiled threats from the ODF camp.
Bad manners really.