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LibreOffice has become the premiere choice as an office suite software in most important Linux distributions, but it lacked the add-ons feature, something to make it a lot more like its bigger brother, OpenOffice.org. The Document Foundation announced that LibreOffice will now benefit from additional functionality th... |
31 October 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Matthias Klose announced yesterday, January 3rd, some details regarding the replacement of the old OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 packages with the new LibreOffice 3.3 ones, starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Alpha 2 release. As we've announced a few months ago, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubun... |
4 January 2011
09:51 GMT |
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A number of customers have dumped an open source productivity suite for Microsoft Office, citing superior value from the Redmond company’s solution. Just as Windows has an open source alternative in the various distributions of Linux, so Microsoft Office is rivaled by OpenOffice. And just as it is the case wi... |
11 October 2010
09:12 GMT |
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Earlier this week a number of OpenOffice developers have created the Document Foundation a new group, based around OpenOffice.org, which would oversee the development of LibreOffice, an OpenOffice fork which would focus on making the office suite better adhere to the open and free software principles. Mark Shuttlewor... |
2 October 2010
06:23 GMT |
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Microsoft's spinoff, known as the CodePlex Foundation, has now been renamed the Outercurve Foundation, in an attempt to help reduce the confusion that existed between the Foundation and the open-source repository named CodePlex.com.The open-source foundation supported by Microsoft in 2009, decided that, at a yea... |
29 September 2010
09:27 GMT |
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Sometime between 2003 and 2006, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and Co-founder and chairman Bill Gates visited Sun Microsystems. It wasn’t a courtesy visit, according to Jonathan Ian Schwartz, Former CEO of Sun Microsystems. The Microsoft duo were on a mission to convince Scott McNealy, Sun&rsqu... |
10 March 2010
10:40 GMT |
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OpenOffice 3.1.1 RC1 is now available to the general public, OpenOffice.org has announced. Version 3.1.1 RC1 brings a full page’s worth of fixes and enhancements, and fans can download the latest version of the open-source suite right here on Softpedia. Among the major changes mentioned in the changelog for Op... |
10 August 2009
06:53 GMT |
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The people at OpenOffice.org have released the newest version of the popular office suite for Mac, Linux and PC, OpenOffice 3.1.0. The software is free to download for anyone owning a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later. The 3.1.0 release is a major update to the powerful office suite. You can go here to have a... |
11 May 2009
09:39 GMT |
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OpenOffice.org has released a new version of its powerful suite of office applications, OpenOffice 3.0.1 Release Candidate 1. OpenOffice.org is an open-source, multi-platform, and multilingual office suite, similar to MS Office and NeoOffice. The tool is compatible with all other major office suites, and is free to d... |
7 January 2009
09:51 GMT |
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OpenZone has confirmed that its PlusOffice suite of office apps is coming to Mac. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, the features offered include a spreadsheet, text, and mathematical-formula editor, as well as a graphic program and multimedia presentation application. The Mac version should see its official r... |
18 December 2008
08:17 GMT |
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In the context of the global financial crisis, Microsoft is attempting to deter companies from free open source software, and to keep them buying its products. The Redmond company is using British company Speedy Hire as an illustrative example of why businesses should steer away from open source solutions, even if th... |
3 December 2008
12:49 GMT |
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The third major installment of OpenOffice.org's suite of applications has reached its final version. Probably one of the most important aspects surrounding OpenOffice 3 for Mac is that it now runs natively under Mac OS X, meaning no more X11, meaning faster performance, a standard UI and an increased overall rel... |
13 October 2008
16:01 GMT |
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While Microsoft is cooking Office 14, the successor of the Office 2007 System, the latest version of OpenOffice.org has become available for download. OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 is a free and open source alternative to the Redmond giant's productivity suite, which has lost the advantage of the ISO standard Open Docume... |
9 October 2008
16:21 GMT |
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NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 2 is now available for Mac owners using the free suite of office applications from NeoOffice.org. The second patch for the latest version of NeoOffice fixes a few bugs. As usual, users are encouraged to report any issues they may encounter while using the software.NeoOffice is based on the OpenO... |
14 July 2008
03:42 GMT |
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A new beta version of OpenOffice, the famous open source alternative to Microsoft Office, was officially rolled out. OpenOffice 3 Beta 1 comes with several new functions supposed to be included in the final version of the application, scheduled for release in September 2008. Among the new features, one of the most im... |
8 May 2008
07:05 GMT |
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OpenOffice has always been a pretty popular application, especially thanks to the fact that it offers a freeware alternative to Microsoft Office, the suite of tools dubbed the most powerful solution in its category. Because of the freeware license but of numerous other advanced features, Microsoft Office quickly gain... |
18 April 2008
04:26 GMT |
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Many applications come and go everyday from our computers and, in the end, only the best remains. Therefore, we thought it was a good idea to pick ten of the best open source applications of the year that passed. The following classification is not a "who's the best or worst app" kind of list, it was made based ... |
31 December 2007
10:46 GMT |
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OpenOffice, the popular freeware Office suite, is now accessible through your browser, as the developers rolled out a web-based version available to only 15,000 beta testers. Since all you need is a browser, there's no download or installation required to access the web-based OpenOffice. The service is compatibl... |
17 December 2007
09:39 GMT |
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Following a recent vulnerability discovered in OpenOffice.org, many of the Office suites out there, which are based on the main OpenOffice package, are also affected by the same glitch. NeoOffice is just an example, as the 2.2.2 version without Patch 4 installed is vulnerable to attacks because of the same OpenOffice... |
14 December 2007
06:22 GMT |
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OpenOffice has always been regarded as the perfect solution for Microsoft Office, a more expensive solution powered by the Redmond-based company. Since it has been available for free for all Windows, Mac, and Linux users, OpenOffice is installed on millions of computers from all over the world. But, this impressive p... |
5 December 2007
05:53 GMT |
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The Communist Party of Vietnam plans to switch its 20,000 desktop computers nationwide to open-source software until the coming year, this way avoiding problems with copyright infringement.The efforts made by Microsoft to reduce software piracy in Vietnam, where an industry group has estimated more than 90% of all so... |
16 October 2007
03:23 GMT |
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The free open source productivity suite OpenOffice is the absolute worst Windows Vista application. Still, I would like to underline that mine is a subjective position, based on the statistics compiled by the Windows Error Reporting service. According to the error monitoring infrastructure in Vista, OpenOffice 2.2 cr... |
21 September 2007
12:22 GMT |
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OpenOffice is one of those programs that a lot of people like and use, so when you disclose a vulnerability like this, it's best to let everyone know about it. It is important that people update the software in order to patch up any vulnerability. If you want to see what versions are affected by this (so you can... |
18 September 2007
08:59 GMT |
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Today is a bad day for Microsoft. Google just introduced presentations to Google Docs, an online feature designed to rival Office PowerPoint. But this is not the end for the Redmond company, as Office's situation is bound to get worse. IBM also announced that, starting today, its Lotus Symphony office software w... |
18 September 2007
07:12 GMT |
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The Canadian Labour Congress chose to use OpenOffice.org from now on as their suite of business applications. They had two options to replace their old WordPerfect installations: the widely used Microsoft Office or the free OpenOffice.org. The decision they took was clearly a financial one, saving approximately $60,0... |
14 September 2007
10:57 GMT |
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Today the OpenOffice.org community announced that IBM will collaborate with OpenOffice.org on the development of new OpenOffice.org software, including accessibility enhancements and will be making future contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org.Rich Green, Executive Vice President at ... |
10 September 2007
09:31 GMT |
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Microsoft aims to spread its Office 2007 System love all around. And the Redmond company will stop at nothing in order to do so. The fact of the matter is that behind the international standardization process of the Open XML file format is a strategy to completely overshadow OpenOffice with the Office 2007 System. In... |
4 September 2007
09:07 GMT |
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Microsoft will stop at nothing to drive the ratification of Open XML (the native file format of the Office 2007System) as an international standard. In this sense, the Redmond Company is gathering additional support for the Ecma Open XML-Open Document Format Translator Project from the Linux side of the trenches. Mic... |
10 July 2007
02:39 GMT |
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Linspire is one of the open source distributors, along with Novell and Xandros, to jump on Microsoft's Windows - Linux interoperability and software assurance wagon. Linspire is the maker of a distribution of Linux having the same name as the company, but formerly named Lindows, a trademark over which Microsoft ... |
2 July 2007
12:40 GMT |
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Microsoft has produced a comparison between the Office 2007 System and OpenOffice. Wipro Technologies performed a study commissioned by Microsoft contrasting the Redmond Company's technologies with open source solutions. Not surprisingly, the conclusions of the study are favorable to Microsoft. Wipro Technologie... |
14 June 2007
08:34 GMT |
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OpenOffice, the freeware alternative for the famous Microsoft Office, might be the wrong decision for the ones that are looking for a cheaper replacement for the software giant's suite. Not only that OpenOffice doesn't include all the features owned by Microsoft Office, but it is also vulnerable to attacks,... |
13 June 2007
10:04 GMT |
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The latest OpenOffice release, 2.3 is announced to be released later this fall and it will also change its release cycle from 18-months to releasing updates, feature enhancements and bug fixes every three months. This release will also bring some interesting new features and functionalities, among many bug-fixes and... |
4 June 2007
11:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has a conflicting relationship with OpenOffice. After last week's patent infringement allegations, the Redmond Company now delivers additional support for the open source productivity suite. Via SourceForge.net - Microsoft's open source project - the company has made available for download the bet... |
21 May 2007
02:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has revealed the fact that it has cast a positive vote in support of the addition of OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.0 to the nonexclusive American National Standards list, after on Monday, it accused free and open source software, including Linux and OpenOffice, of violating no less than 235 of its patents. Mi... |
17 May 2007
12:05 GMT |
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Every function of the two rival solutions, Microsoft Office and Google Office, is extremely important because it can make the difference and influence a user to choose one of the products. Now, OpenOffice is regarded as the most powerful alternative for the software giant's product because it is available for fr... |
25 April 2007
04:11 GMT |
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