News Archive for 2006 |
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1/13/2006 Grant for the Global Digital Format Registry
2/19/2006 Sun to offer online conversion of MSWord to OpenDocument
2/25/2006 Tags vs. Categories
2/26/2006 Determining a character set
2/28/2006 (updated 8/28/11) Links for February 2006
3/31/2006 (updated 8/28/11) Links for March 2006
4/1/2006 Battle Lines in the Document Format Wars
4/1/2006 WhatIsThatFile.com
4/24/2006 Virtual Machine File Format Competition
4/24/2006 PDF Forward Compatibility Issues
4/30/2006 (updated 8/28/11) Links for April 2006
5/7/2006 Unipage - standards-based single-file web archive format
5/8/2006 OpenDocument ratified by ISO
5/10/2006 Unipage Samples
5/16/2006 DecodeUnicode
5/20/2006 First draft of the MSOfficeXML file format has been released
5/21/2006 MSOfficeXML: Does long-term viability matter?
5/27/2006 Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for MSOfficeXML File Formats (Beta 2)
5/27/2006 Strange ?proprietary? inclusions in MSOfficeXML?
5/27/2006 Windows Media Photo (WMP): JPEG Competitor from Microsoft
5/31/2006 (updated 8/28/11) Links for May 2006
6/14/2006 Podcast about the ZIP file format
6/18/2006 disktype: a utility to figure out a disk format
6/18/2006 Mark Pilgrim's digital preservation saga
6/30/2006 (updated 8/28/11) Links for June 2006
7/1/2006 Freedom to Leave
7/7/2006 Microsoft Office to support OpenDocument
7/23/2006 Unicode 5.0 Released
7/29/2006 Code2000 Font with Unicode 5 BMP Support
7/31/2006 (updated 8/28/11) Links for July 2006
9/30/2006 (updated 8/28/11) Links for September 2006
10/7/2006 Downtime due to a bad font
10/15/2006 Feedback and community vs spam
10/31/2006 (updated 8/28/11) Links for October 2006
11/2/2006 Microsoft XML Paper (XPS) Spec Available
11/5/2006 Microsoft Office XML Final Draft is Released
11/5/2006 WebCGM 2.0
11/19/2006 Windows Media Photo (WMP aka HD Photo) Specification 1.0
11/19/2006 Adobe Mars: a counter-strike against Microsoft's XPS
11/19/2006 Ten things not to do with your data
11/19/2006 Microsoft Tools for MSOfficeXML
11/19/2006 Open Standard Requirement for Software
11/20/2006 Popular Mechanics article on digital preservation
11/26/2006 Interesting Interview with Microsoft VP of the Consumer Media Technology Group
11/30/2006 (updated 8/28/11) Links for November 2006
12/2/2006 Unicode character info via JSON
12/3/2006 Internet Archive Gets DMCA Exemption
12/17/2006 Jon Udell's address book conversion saga
12/17/2006 Portico tries to preserve electronic journals
12/31/2006 (updated 8/28/11) Links for December 2006