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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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