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+Last month Sun announced it would [lend its support to a native OS X port][3] of the OpenOffice suite and yesterday OpenOffice.org released the first alpha version of an OS X native version of the popular, free alternative to Microsoft Office.
+
+But before Mac users get to excited about shedding those Redmond chains bear in mind that this release is very alpha and comes with the follow, bold, red, all caps warning from the OpenOffice site:
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+>THIS SOFTWARE MAY CRASH AND MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT
+
+Having downloaded and tested the OpenOffice alpha I can attest to its bugginess. In fact I would characterize this as more of a proof of concept than an alpha (screenshots after the jump). 
+
+Thus far the [list of missing features][2] is nearly as long than the features list, but the release is a welcome sign of life for the OS X port of OpenOffice. Here's a few notes from the release page:
+
+>*	You cannot print
+*	PDF export does not properly work as the text won't show on the page right
+*	Starting OpenOffice.org from a shared folder does not work
+*	Copy and paste does not fully work
+*	OpenOffice.org will crash after quitting
+*	Some text is not drawn in places like Impress
+*	Impress will not recognize multiple monitors
+
+OpenOffice for Mac will require OS X 10.4 Tiger
+
+If the limited functionality doesn't put you off, feel free to [download and give it a try][1]. Just be warned, it's got a long way to go before it reaches to functional stage.
+
+[1]: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html "Open Office for Mac"
+[2]: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/buglist.cgi?keywords=aqua "OO Mac Known Issues"
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/sun_embraces_op.html "Sun Embraces OpenOffice For Mac"
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+Ask has redesigned its default search page and introduced some new features. The company is touting the new results page, dubbed "Ask 3D," as a "[major leap forward][3]" for search. [Ask 3D][1] features a new three-panel interface which integrates additional multimedia content -- images, videos and music -- along with the traditional text-based results. 
+
+Although Google dominates the search market, pulling in nearly fifty percent of all online search queries, Ask has its small, but loyal audience as well -- 5 percent according the comScore's April numbers. 
+
+And those existing users will likely enjoy some of the new features, which push personalization over generic search results.
+
+The most obvious change is the merging of all types of search into a single page. The new search results page is divided into three sections -- hence the "Ask3D" -- with the left side containing a search box and links to expand or narrow results.
+
+The center section contains traditional Web results. Highlights in the section are page previews complete with  information like whether the page requires plug-ins, if there are "pop up" windows on loading, page size and download time (based on a 56K modem connection).
+
+The right column of the search results page contains auxiliary search results such as images, Wikipedia, dictionary and blog results.
+
+There's also a new video search, powered by Blinkx, which offer the ability to see video previews by moving your mouse over the thumbnail image.
+
+Ask now features customizable skins and options for saving and sharing results with other users via folders of "MyStuff".
+
+For more detailed information on all the new features check out the [Ask about page][2].
+
+All in all Ask's relaunch is impressive and features make the site easier to use and more content rich, but at the same time Ask has a long road ahead of it if it wants to continue competing with Google.
+
+[2]: http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/site_features.shtml "Ask: Site Features"
+[1]: http://www.ask.com/ "Ask.com"
+[3]: http://blog.ask.com/2007/06/introducing_ask.html "Introducing Ask3D - A Truly New Way to Search"
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+Blogging software giant Six Apart has announced the beta release of Movable Type (MT) 4.0. MT 4.0 is the first release since 2004's MT 3.0 and brings upwards of 50 new features and a completely revamped interface.
+
+Anil Dash, [writing on the Six Apart blog][2], also says that the new version will be released under the GPL, which means MT 4.0 will be open source like Wordpress.
+
+So far I haven't been able to locate an exact feature list, but Dash's post provides the following overview of the new version:
+
+>*	A completely reinvented user interface with a dashboard overview of how all of your blogs are doing
+*	Support for publishing standalone pages and managing file assets and images right within MT
+*	Brand-new community features like OpenID, and a built-in user registration system
+*	A completely redesigned component architecture that makes MT faster and more scalable than ever before
+*	And it’s going to be available in a completely open source version with its home at a completely relaunched community site that revives an old, beloved URL: movabletype.org.
+
+Moveable Type took something of a beating in the blogosphere when version 3.0 was released and introduced all sorts of licensing and fees that led many longtime users to abandon the platform in favor of Wordpress, Textpattern and other blogging software.
+
+Obviously Six Apart is hoping to regain some of those users with the release of 4.0 and from all appearances the current beta is still very much a work in progress -- Dash says that Six Apart would love to hear from users. 
+
+If you're a Movable Type user and and you'd like to test the new version, [grab a copy from the Movable Type site][3] and be sure to use the [feedback form][4] if you have suggestions and ideas.
+
+While it's good to see Six Apart moving in a new direction and embracing open source, from the limited information that's available regarding the new release, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot that Wordpress doesn't already offer. OpenID support is nice and the redesigned interface looks to offer some slick new stats and other options, but the core feature set still 
+
+While the update will know doubt be welcomed by current users, there isn't much to entice new users to switch from their existing platforms. 
+
+The beta version of Movable Type 4.0 is free and the final release will be free for personal use with support and commercial licenses ranging from $50 for basic support to a whooping $750 for a 20 seat commercial license.
+
+[In the interests of full disclosure I should note that Compiler runs on Typepad which is a Six Apart service.]
+
+[2]: http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/news/2007/06/movable-type-4-beta.html "Movable Type 4 Beta: We're On A Mission"
+[3]: http://www.movabletype.org/download.html "Download MT 4.0 beta"
+[4]: http://www.movabletype.org/feedback.html "MT feedback"
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+When Microsoft announced that Office 2007 would use the OOXML format as its default file format the company sought to assure customers that the change was for the best. But judging by the experiences of two major scientific publishers, Microsoft may have misjudged the market.
+
+At least two major scientific publishers, <cite>Science</cite> and <cite>Nature</cite>, are both [refusing to accept documents in the new Word 2007 format][1]. Science's authoring guidelines contain the following warning:
+
+>Because of changes Microsoft has made in its recent Word release that are incompatible with our internal workflow ... Science cannot at present accept any files in the new .docx format produced through Microsoft Word 2007, either for initial submission or for revision. 
+
+While Science doesn't detail their internal workflow beyond saying that it involves Word 2003, the follow highlights the major issue with OOXML from many publishers' point of view:
+
+
+>Users of Word 2007 should also be aware that equations created with the default equation editor included in Microsoft Word 2007 will be unacceptable in revision ... because the default equation editor packaged with Word 2007 -- *for reasons that, quite frankly, utterly baffle us* -- was not designed to be compatible with MathML. (emphasis mine)
+
+Nature's guidelines for authors contain a similar warning:
+
+>We currently cannot accept files saved in Microsoft Office 2007 formats. Equations and special characters (for example, Greek letters) cannot be edited and are incompatible with Nature's own editing and typesetting programs."
+
+For reasons that baffle just about everyone familiar with the issue, Microsoft has chosen to replace the industry standard language for displaying mathematical equations -- MathML -- with their own proprietary version, which, as the above quotes illustrate, almost no one outside of Redmond is interested in using.
+
+Just one of the many reasons why OOXML just doesn't work.
+
+What remains to be seen is whether industry leading publishers like Nature and Science will convert their workflow to use OOXML's proprietary formats, or simply stick with the the systems they have which use the existing and well-established MathML format. 
+
+Given what I know about the publishing industry, I suspect that it will be a very long time before print publications invest in a radical new publishing standard that ties them down to a single piece of software.
+
+[via [O'Reilly Radar][2]]
+
+[1]: http://prorev.com/2007/05/science-pubs-reject-articles-written-in.htm "Science Pubs Reject Articles Written In Word 2007"
+[2]: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/06/science_and_nat.html "Science and Nature rejecting Word 2007 Manuscripts"
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