Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15

August 15, 2010

RT @philoakley FLOSS UK Unconference Autumn 2010 Saturday, 16th October, Birmingham & Midland Institute – http://unconference2010.flossu … # Powered by Twitter Tools

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08

August 8, 2010

Reading a great article on open source social media platforms in Linux User & Developer magazine written by @richardsmedley # Powered by Twitter Tools

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

July 11, 2010

12 Indispensable Web Design Apps for Ubuntu – http://ow.ly/26Uqj # Powered by Twitter Tools

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WordPress 3.0 (Thelonious) released today – 7 New Features List

June 18, 2010

The much anticipated major version upgrade of WordPress, the ever popular blogging and Content Management System, has been released today. A lot of emphasis of this release, version 3.0, has been put on the inclusion of WordPress MU (Multi User). Although hosting multiple blogs on one install is incredibly useful this will probably be a feature [...]

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Upgrade time (again) for WordPress 2.9

December 21, 2009

19th December saw the release of the WordPress 2.9 (the ever popular CMS and blogging software) . As with all of the latest versions WordPress can be upgraded from the main Dashboard.  Below is a video of some of the new features which include: Global undo/”trash” feature – very handy for when you change your [...]

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Microsoft Office SP2 ODF support poorly implemented

August 8, 2009

Like many people Outserve looked forward to the support of ODF (Open Document Format) in Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 and saw it as an important step forward in improved operability between open source solutions like Openoffice.org and proprietary software like Microsoft Office. This step forward should have meant greater freedom for users and [...]

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OpenDocument Format support in Microsoft Office is here

April 29, 2009

Ther is an update to this post here. As mentioned in the previous post Microsoft Office 2007 Service pack 2 (SP2) would include support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) and would be released 28th April and here it is – Microsoft Download. SP2 is a 290MB download so you do not want to be on a [...]

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Microsoft Office Supports OpenDocument Format

April 25, 2009

In many recent talks that Outserve has given we have spoken about Microsoft Office supporting the OpenDocument Format (ODF) in the upcoming release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Office.  Outserve see that the No.1 office suite, used by millions of people worldwide, supporting ODF is an essential step forward in the adoption of [...]

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Outserve talking at the following events this week…

March 30, 2009

A busy week for Outserve this week as we are attending two events and will be talking at both. The first event  on Tuesday 31st March will be the West Midlands IT Solutions Showcase at Millennium Point In Birmingham (pictured) where Outserve will be talking to local businesses about how Open Source software can help [...]

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Microsoft Supports ODF (OpenDocument Format)

March 15, 2009

It has been widely publicised that Microsoft Office 2007 will support OpenDocument Formats (ODF) from Service Pack 2 (which is expected to be released in the first half of 2009). What may not be so widely known is that Windows 7 (the latest version of Windows which was available as a free beta) ships with [...]

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