OpenOffice is a free office suite application that can open and edit common Microsoft Office files. OpenOffice can edit and save .doc (Word), .xls (Excel) and .ppt (PowerPoint) files. It's free and it ...

The latest version of the open source office suite is now open for business and possibly offering small businesses more reasons to consider reducing or severing their reliance on Microsoft products.

After 18 months of development, Version 1.0 of the open-source OpenOffice.org productivity suite was released today for free download. In an announcement today, OpenOffice.org, the developer community ...

The third full OpenOffice suite is out in the wild and attracting plenty of attention. OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released Monday — and already, demand has been high enough to overwhelm the download ...

In its first major revision in more than a year, the Apache OpenOffice suite now comes with a sidebar, from which users can launch their favorite tools. “Over the years we saw the increased use of ...

Microsoft Office virtually owns the productivity suite market and runs upward of $479 per copy—a price-to-ubiquity ratio that Microsoft Corp. has been able to maintain through constant feature ...

OpenOffice may support Microsoft's Office Open XML standard in future, but the organisation behind the open source productivity suite anticipates that everyone, including Microsoft, will have ...

The OpenOffice.org group updated its open-source suite of desktop applications on Monday, saying that its new release enhances the ability of users to create charts and other graphics from spreadsheet ...

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OpenOffice.org has released a patch for three security vulnerabilities in its popular open-source office software suite. Maliciously crafted Java applets can break out of the sandbox (the security ...

Concerns at the Apache Software Foundation that the Apache OpenOffice project it hosts might be failing have prompted a debate about retiring the project, and triggered the resignation of at least one ...