Interesting Proposal from the Cabinet Office:
http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-documents
Standards based documents *only*. txt, csv, html4/5, ODF.
:-D
Al
On 29/01/14 21:00, Andres wrote:
I guess this is not news for some of you but thought I'd mention
The example of the City of Munich is certainly encouraging but the difference
in scale between the Munich administration and the UK government is many orders
of magnitude.
My own view is that there will never be a single strategic decision to move UK
government IT infrastructure from
On 29/01/14 21:03, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there ... A couple of weeks ago, I did a BIOS (UEFI) update as
requested after reporting a bug. The result was that an installation of
Windows 7 which I had on a removable drive died completely and I lost
it. How unstable Windows can be at times
On 30/01/14 11:20, alan c wrote:
Congratulations Barry! I am surprised you could hold out so long! I
said good bye to Windows years ago now and I actually think my health
improved! Yes, really.
Hi Alan .. One thing I have to use a Windows program for is to
visit my local e-library. I
On 30/01/14 16:07, Barry Drake wrote:
I've also been looking at the Open Documents thread. I think it was
the last time we met, at a government consultation about this issue.
Government grinds very slowly Schools are still teaching
Microsoft BUT with kids using Android tablets
On 30 Jan 2014 16:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:
Schools are still teaching Microsoft
This is changing. Slowly, but it's changing.
J
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Hi!
Y'know the comical thing is: when I read the subject line I had a sudden
vision of Microsoft finally giving in and going open-source! ;-)
On 30/01/14 16:15, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 30/01/14 16:07, Barry Drake wrote:
I've also been looking at the Open Documents thread. I think
Within schools I think it is important to remember that Microsoft has
been outdoing itself to bring educational establishments into migrating
to Office365, which when you have Office 2013 and Windows 7 and above is
great. It's just not so good with everything else (as the IMAP thread on
this
On 30/01/14 16:34, Bea Groves wrote:
Y'know the comical thing is: when I read the subject line I had a
sudden vision of Microsoft finally giving in and going open-source! ;-)
Nice one! Oh, but if they do that folk might find out that bits of
their code are tortuous and outdated
On 29/01/14 21:03, Barry Drake wrote:
When I looked at my very rare need for Windows, I found that I only
have occasional need to use Microsoft Word to open a docx file which
is heavily formatted and shows complete garbage in Libreoffice, and
for the very occasional publisher file I am sent.
On 30/01/14 21:04, Gibbs wrote:
I've noticed a lot more people using Libre Office, including big
companies like British Gas, which makes life easier for /everyone/.
Now that is interesting! Not so many years back, there was a deep
suspicion of open source programs. It is excellent complex
On 30 de enero de 2014 21:21:18 GMT, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com
wrote:
On 30/01/14 21:04, Gibbs wrote:
I've noticed a lot more people using Libre Office, including big
companies like British Gas, which makes life easier for /everyone/.
Now that is interesting! Not so many years
Nigel Verity wrote:
I think that standardising on open formats is a significant step but
it is a long, long way from seeing the likes of LibreOffice running
on the typical civil servant's desktop.
I don't think that's going to happen. I think office suites will be in
web-browsers before LO
On 30 January 2014 16:34, Bea Groves beagro...@gmail.com wrote:
Y'know the comical thing is: when I read the subject line I had a sudden
vision of Microsoft finally giving in and going open-source! ;-)
Well, quite.
It should have said Windows-free at last! The missing hyphen changes
the
Hi. Apology if this is out of order, but if as Windows free at last!
suggests Microsoft may be peeved at LibreOffice etc they might just try
it on.
The US and the EU are on the verge of giving rich corporations the right
to control what we all see online -- but we can stop it if we build the
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