Get Off Microsoft

At least one government customer of the free OpenOffice.org package thinks it’s OK

Abandoning Windows is the safest bet. Once on the Mac or Linux platform, Firefox is clearly the better choice.

At first glance, my reaction to Microsoft’s pre-announced, pre-Beta version of Office 12 was, once again, “god help us, we’re in the hands of engineers.”

Opinions from the blogosphere of the Microsoft reorganization announced in Sept. 2005

In the course of researching my book Just Say No to Microsoft, I wasted considerable time pouring through the Microsoft humor sites.

Until Apple gets its XML act together with iWork, consider using OpenOffice.org if you want compatibility with the OpenDocument standard.

Will Firefox make your system more vulnerable due to its popularity? Time will tell.

Massachusetts has decided to phase out Microsoft Office in favor of applications based on open standards, including the OpenDocument standard used by OpenOffice.org and other Open Source applications.

The new version of OpenOffice.org (Beta 2, available for testing) supports OASIS OpenDocument and offers richer compatibility with the Windows version of Microsoft Office.

Numerous flaws have been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer a month after the company issued a major cumulative patch to fix previous security flaws.