After a bitter, year-long fight filled with finger-pointing and muckraking, it’s finally over. Microsoft has won its battle to have its Office Open XML document format approved by the International Standards Organization (ISO). The OOXML format, which is already an ECMA-approved standard, failed to win ISO approval when it was first examined by the group’s [...]

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In response to the overwhelming turnout for Day Without Google, the search giant has announced it will withdraw its flagship product, the Google search engine, later in April. “We will continue to provide our enterprise search solutions and popular hosted applications, but we know when we’re not wanted,” sniffed a Google spokesperson via email this [...]

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Google has begun rolling out offline access to it one of its most popular online office applications. Soon, users of Google Docs will be able to periodically sync their library of saved files, normally stored on Google’s servers, to their desktops. These local backups will enable people to view, search and edit their Google Docs [...]

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Apparently there are other search engines out there. AltSearchEngines proposes that we all spend the day using them instead of the big G. I’m giving it a shot, why not, but some things are awfully ingrained in my reflexes (ctrl-L, g keyword). In fact, the ground rules suggest we don’t use any of the “five [...]

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One of the original Mozilla staffers is paying a special tribute to the open-source browser project on Monday, its tenth birthday. For a project dubbed “Run Some Old Web Browsers Day,” Jamie Zawinski has recreated the original Mosaic Communications Corporations websites from July and October 1994. Zawinski, a one-time Netscape employee and early contributor to [...]

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