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Submission + - Microsoft Performs Illegal Operation, Shuts Down

Submitted by mail.app on Sunday April 01, 2007 @08:27AM

mail.app writes: Microsoft Performs Illegal Operation, Shuts Down Microsoft Corp. issued a surprise press release this morning announcing that the company had "performed an illegal operation and would be shut down." Company executives refused to provide further information regarding the cause of the unexpected shutdown, only issuing a cryptic error number of $00038FF577 and advising all interested parties to "contact their system administrator."

Submission + - No fooling Wikipedia on April Fools' Day

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01, 2007 @08:04AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a bold and oppressive move, Wikipedia has prohibited modification to its April Fools' Day page. Visiting the page today yields the message: "Editing of this article by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled because of vandalism due to the fact that it is April Fools Day." What's next? Prohibiting the modification of the International Waffle Day page on International Waffle Day? The Union of Transylvania with Romania Day on the Union of Transylvania with Romania Day? Or the Death to America Day page on Death to America Day? I, for one, am shocked.

Submission + - HTML6 will be based on OOXML

Submitted by

Henri Sivonen

on Sunday April 01, 2007 @07:10AM

Henri Sivonen writes: "The Web Hypertext Application Technology Task Force revealed today its secret behind-the-closed-doors plans for HTML6. HTML6 will use OOXML as the serialization for backwards compatibility with the installed base of office suites. The architectural model will be based on the principle of separation of semantics from presentation and integrates with the enterprise-strength backplane for rich applications."

Submission + - OxygenOffice Professional 2.2.0 - downloadable

Submitted by kami911 on Sunday April 01, 2007 @06:25AM

kami911 writes: OxygenOffice Professional is a free and open source enhancement of official OpenOffice.org.
Here are just a few of the extras you get with OxygenOffice Professional:
* Enhanced VBA support (developer Noel Power @ Novell)
* Import filter for Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2007 native fileformats
* You are able to switch to Office 2007 like User Interface (Under heavy development, thanks to Miquel)
* SVG import export filter (Beta state)
* Hungarian thesaurs
* Dictionary module with web search capability
* On-line templates, fonts and gallery marketplace
* New Hungarian, English and German templates

You can download OxygenOffice Professional 2.2 from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=170021&package_id=193899&release_id=497989

Visual Basic on GNU/Linux 383

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @11:41AM from the but-why-you-might-ask dept.

jeevesbond writes "The Mono Project announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."

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