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After becoming a long-time rumor, Sun finally officially announced the result of Project Renaissance, which is a project to make a new user interface for OpenOffice. Interestingly, like covered by ZDNet, the new interface is very similar to Ribbon interface introduced by Microsoft in Office 2007. ZDNet quoted a few open source community blogs that [...]

An interesting list of computer-related (not necessarily programming-related) quotes. You can find it here: 101 Great Computer [...]

Mono, open source implementation of Microsoft .Net runtime, start to gain attention in desktop application development in Linux. Several Linux distros start to include Mono applications, such as Banshee music player, GNOME Do desktop search tool, Tomboy note-taking application. An article in LinuxPlanet contains an explanation from GNOME Do developer on why he chose to [...]

For those that use IIS, Microsoft provides IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit to help Web developers, hosting providers and Web server admin to optimize search result relevance. This toolkit will help increase volume and quality of traffic from search engine, administration of robots.txt, creation of [...]

InfoWorld recently tested a couple of alternative applications to Microsoft Office to know how well they handle Word documents, both in Office 2003 (DOC) format and Office 2007 (OpenXMl, DOCX) format. They compared SoftMaker and OpenOffice. Even though the test is a bit limited, the result shows OpenOffice’s weakness in handling Office 2003 and Office 2007 [...]