Microsoft goes public with Office file format

Microsoft has decided to make the file formats of it's Office Suit public. The file formats of Word, Excell and PowerPoint will be released before the upcoming Office 12. At least that is what Microsoft is aiming for.

Microsoft wants the document formats of it's Office Open XML to have international recognition and hopes to get an ISO certification for it.

According to Microsoft the pressure from local governments has contributed to the attempt to publish it's document formats as an open standard.

If the Microsoft document format will become an open standard, this will be the end of close document formats at Microsoft.

Presidential medal for internet fathers

The fathers of internet, Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom which is the highest civil award in the US.

Other prominent figures that will receive the medal are Muhammad Ali, three-time heavyweight-boxing champ; and Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve of the US.

Kahn and Cerf are the developers of the TCP/IP protocols which are used to transmit traffic across the internet. They developed the protocol in 1973 for the US military.

The TCP/IP protocol today is the standard for all internet communication.

Today Robert Kahn is CEO for the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), a non-profit organization for research and development of the national Information Infrastructure.

Vint Cerf is working for Google, today's largest Internet search company and is developing architectures and systems and standards for the next-generation applications.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom will be presented November 9 at the White House.

First official visit in 300 years

It takes some patience, but after 300 years a Russian leader pays an official visit to The Netherlands. Last Tuesday president Vladimir Putin arrived for a two day state visit.

First stop was the War Memorial on Dam Square where Putin and his wife remembered all Dutch casualties of wars. Next Putin met with high officials and important people of Dutch Corporate life.

Putin said he hopes that his visit will promote trade between Russia and The Netherlands. He claimed the Russians always have admired Dutch entrepreneurship.
Well, thankyouverymuch Mr. Putin!

Putin also paid a visit to Zaandam, where he visit the house in which the Russian tsar Peter the Great stayed some time at the end of the 17th century.

Wednesday evening Putin said his goodbyes to our Queen and off he went.

Well, I say that was worth waiting 300 years. Wasn't it?

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