I was just looking for more info about Google's move to offer an inexpensive alternative to Microsoft Word for word processing, when I discovered this recent blog post from the CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz: My Family Photos - and ODF. For those who will use Microsoft Word 2007, Sun is apparently creating a plug in that will allow users to set the Open Document Format as the default format for saving documents. Very interesting... Microsoft cannot ignore this format, and clearly isn't ......
Well, I've finally made time to start my own blog, and here it is, my first post. Most of my work involves Microsoft .NET, web pages, rich clients, communications, and so forth, and I'm sure I'll be blogging about some of those experiences soon. But I plan to also blog about any technology issues that come up that I think are interesting enough to share, including new discoveries regarding Java, Linux, and open source projects which aren't necessarily new but are either new to me or something I think ......