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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} What will happen with OOXML? -- Comment()
ISO put OOXML document formats on hold. This was expected, and not only because of the complaints from the member countries. Now the ISO organization has a possibility to fix its reputation. This was a sordid mess. No wonder Micrsoft announced support for ODF, the competing format, in MS Office.
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OS X will be even more stable (and faster) -- Comment()
I started using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in February 2008, although I bought a copy several months earlier. Based on the experiences, I should have made the move much earlier. I very much liked the earlier version of OS X, and version 10.4.11 has been extremely stable, but all in all 10.5 easily surpasses the old one. And for me there haven't been stability problems in 10.5. The newest version, 10.5.3, has now been in use for two weeks on my iMac and iBook without restarts or other interruptions. And I have now been able to make fast enough backups of the iBook over the wireless network at home to my external Time Machine backup disk. The news about Apple focusing on stability and speed in the next version of OS X seem just right. I totally agree that parallelism is the next great step, and software vendors should really look into their software to scale it to 8, 16, 32 etc. processors. This is the only way to benefit from the next steps in processor technology. In terms of user experience, version 10.5 is great. There are some details to finetune, bugs to correct (and Apple has made hundreds of corrections already), but otherwise this operating system is great as it is. In any case, I think the value for the future arises from the applications and from the cloud. Perhaps Apple has quite a lot in store on this front.
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