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Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on November 22, 2005 at 3:05:04 PM
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Xbox 360 launch day. I haven't played my Xbox in 4 weeks.
That's sad...
Microsoft to open Office formats. docx will be XML, which is 'open'.
Trying to make docx as big as PDF ehh?
Google to start using base to feed ads. Google life... no thanks.
Xbox 360 launch day. I haven't played my Xbox in 4 weeks.
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"I feel amazing," said Peter Gonzalez, 19, from Manhattan. Gonzalez, shivering after waiting nearly 30 hours in front of Best Buy Co. Inc.'s midtown Manhattan store to buy the new Xbox. The college student said he would stay up all night playing games before heading to classes in the morning.
That's sad...
Microsoft to open Office formats. docx will be XML, which is 'open'.
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The move will ensure that computer users will be able to open and work with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents without having to buy the Microsoft Office software to do so. The move is separate to Microsoft’s ongoing antitrust case with the European Commission, but comes in response to another concern raised by the European Union executive body.
Trying to make docx as big as PDF ehh?
Google to start using base to feed ads. Google life... no thanks.
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Many publishers had become concerned about the potential of Google Base, which could allow the company to dominate the classified advertising business. Now, publishers of services like the Yellow Pages are facing a competitive threat from Google. Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., said that beginning this morning it would make available a feature that provides a local version of its Froogle shopping service. The service uses a third-party database of national product inventory organized by locality.