Desktop News and Articles

The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance) today reported world wide growth in software applications implementing support for ODF in their products.

The South African government has decided on the Open Document Format (ODF) as its standard for internal communications.

The third beta release sees the KDE team freeze the development platform and includes further code clean-up work. The developers have concentrated on libraries since the second beta, but there are some more visible changes, too.

The KDE project has just released version 3.5.8 of the Linux desktop fixing various bugs and enhancing a number of components.

The fact that support for Microsoft Exchange 5.5 has already been discontinued and the prospect of support for Exchange 2000 being discontinued shortly sees IT staff facing stiff questions on the future of their Groupware environments.

The latest 11.2 update of the Scalix groupware supports multi-tenant environments and hosting as a groupware service.

The Kayak Prize 2007, awarded by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) for the most effective campaign against Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) as a standard, went to Microsoft itself.

The new 0.6.0 version of the compositing window manager Compiz now supports multiple x-screens and has new plug-ins.

The latest version of Astaro Security Gateway V7 no longer relies on Spamassassin. Commtouch technology is now used to filter unsolicited mail.