[SUN] Migrating from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org or StarOffice 9.

This brief (16-page PDF) whitepaper from Sun Microsystems is designed to assist IT professionals and system integrators who want to move an organization from Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP/2003 to OpenOffice.org (OOo) or StarOffice (SO). The whitepaper provides a general framework for a migration to OOo/SO, including a discussion of the key technical aspects of migration planning and file conversion. The basic information that is needed to plan for contingencies during the critical pre-conversion and post-conversion stages of the migration is also provided.

Get it here: http://www.sun.com/offers/docs/Migration_Overview.pdf

Adobe Acrobat 9 Launch Philippines.

The Adobe Acrobat 9 was officially launced today in cooperation win the the Philippine distributor Wordtext Systems, Inc (WSI), at the Rizal Ballroom of Makati Shangri-La Hotel. My apologies for again I do not have any pictures. 

Anyways, I find the said event really worth the time. I know now that PDF is not just the plain document, e-book, or picture that we usually find in product literature, specs, books/help-files, and other stuff. Very good presentation and product video clips. After the said event,  I am convinced on resorting to a real desktop productivity suite such as Acrobat 9 instead of just the plain 3rd-party PDF software out there. Dont get me wrong with this one. If you just need a document or picture to be converted to PDF, then yes go for 3rd-party stuff (free for personal use or cheaply available). But if you want more than PDF conversion, the edge, collaboration, security, and many more, then you wont get wrong with Acrobat 9. 

Here are the stuff that I learned today: 

• Acrobat.com - https://acrobat.com/#/bw/BuzzwordBegin
• PDF Portfolios - PDF can be just like a single container for all documents, audio/video, and even flash content. Merge different files to a single document. 
• Presentations - The powerpoint became "powerful". Interactive with rich multimedia content, 2D/3D, etc.  
• Form Creation - complete with import tools and a wide selection of tools to create/convert that form quickly and conveniently. 
• Real-time collaboration - synchronized reviews with chat. share files anywhere, everywhere. 
• ClearScan OCR
• Document Comparisson
• Webpage Capture

The launch and souvernir kits include Acrobat 9 brochures/specs, Acrobat 9 notebook and pen, and 30-day evaluation of Acrobat 9 Pro Extended DVD.  

 

I have just installed it, and here is the walkthrough:

 

The typical install cost me almost 1.9GB disk space:

That's all for now. More details on the features next time. Cheers to all! 8) 

Demo exploits posted for unpatched MS Word vulnerability.

Great, another one.

Warning: the actual article contains proof-of-concept infected docs... download and run at your own risk!

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Demo exploits posted for unpatched MS Word vulnerability by ZDNet's Ryan Naraine -- A security researcher has released demo exploits for what appears to be a critical – unpatched — memory corruption vulnerability affecting the ubiquitous Microsoft Word software program. The proof-of-concept exploits accompany a warning that the flaw affects Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Office 2003. In addition to the rigged .docs, there are two videos demonstrating an [...]