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The rumors were true: Microsoft is opening up its Office 2007 suite of productivity applications to full support for other formats, including Open Document Format (ODF). Earlier this year, Microsoft was under fire for pushing its own Open Office XML set of formats as an international standard, when many people in the open source community wanted support for the more strictly open ODF standard. Microsoft officials have now also said that Office will fully support PDF format and XML Paper Specification (XPS). The new formats will arrive in Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, early next year, and some translators will arrive before then.

SugarCRM users will now be able to deploy and manage a number of instances of the software through a new management console, the company has announced.....

A new laptop based on One Laptop Per Child's platform is slated to come to market for $75.....

Red Hat wins a Codie award.....

Coverity uncovers many improvements in OSS security.....