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Foundation aims to unshackle OpenOffice.org

A coalition of programmers behind OpenOffice.org formed a foundation to manage a community-driven branch of the open-source productivity software. OpenOffice is owned by Oracle ( NASDAQ: ORCL ), and

OpenOffice.org releases OpenOffice 3.2

OpenOffice 3.2 has been released, and is now available for download. The OpenOffice productivity suite consists of a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation application, and database

Microsoft Office vs. the other guys

A new report by research analyst, Forrester says that 80 percent of enterprise customers are using some version of Microsoft Office . This reflects the stranglehold Microsoft has on the office

Forrester: Microsoft Office is in no danger from competition

Microsoft Office remains the prevalent productivity suite among enterprise customers, with 80 percent of enterprise customers using some version of Microsoft Office. This finding was noted in a new

Google: Expect significant improvements to Docs suite within a year

We can expect to see dramatic improvements in Google's hosted office productivity applications such as Google Docs "within a year." The president of Google's Enterprise unit, Dave Girouard offered

Office 2000 will no longer be supported after July 14

Microsoft will discontinue security updates for Office 2000 beginning July 14. Since the date coincides with Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday"--the second Tuesday of every month--it is presumed that the

OpenOffice 3.1 comes with better performance

A new version of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite has been released. OpenOffice 3.1 comes with a host of performance improvements and feature enhancements. If you are a heavy spreadsheet

OpenOffice 3.0 released

Open Office 3.0 has finally been released after three years in the making. In summary, the new release effectively resolves incompatibility problems between its OpenDocument Format 1.2 and the new

Microsoft reverses stand, will add support for ODF

In an abrupt about-turn, Microsoft announced mid-week that it now plans to support version 1.1 of the ODF (OpenDocument Format) standard in the upcoming Service Pack 2 update of Office 2007.

UK tech agency files complaint against Microsoft

The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (or Becta) has filed a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft. The root of the issue has to do with the lack of