I have been using Microsoft Office as my go-to productivity suite ever since it was first released several decades ago. Even I now find myself using both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice, thanks to a ...

Beta of the open source office suite brings a new Start Centre and some added features that provide a serious, free alternative to Microsoft Office If you think that you always get what you pay for, ...

Sun on Monday unveiled OpenOffice 3.0, the personal productivity suite that’s targeted as the open source alternative to Microsoft Office. On Wednesday, the OpenOffice.org site had a notice that read: ...

A little-known German company called Star Division spent most of the 1990s developing StarOffice, a feature-rich software suite. StarOffice, while incomplete, offered better-than-average compatibility ...

Well it seems Microsoft is at it again with trying to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt against open source software. But wait, I thought they "loved" open source ...

A file with the "ODP" extension is an Apache OpenOffice Presentation file. Apache OpenOffice is an open source productivity suite similar to Microsoft Office; the OpenOffice Impress component is ...

Microsoft Office apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. are loaded with features; but, practically getting used to all of them would take weeks of training. Then there’s one feature that most of us ...

If you haven’t checked out the new Microsoft Subnet and Cisco Subnet focus areas on the Network World Web site yet, you should. Both offer interesting commentaries on their particular subjects. But I ...

If you’re thinking about buying the latest version of Microsoft Office, it’s going to cost you $399 for each PC you own (or $239 if you qualify for an upgrade from an older version). If you need at ...

A deeper look at Microsoft's latest PR stunt reveals its fear of not capturing emerging economies such as Eastern Europe A recently released OpenOffice.org marketing video from Microsoft tries to ...

If you think that you always get what you pay for, the just-released beta of OpenOffice 3.0 should convince you otherwise. This free, open-source software suite provides most of what anyone could want ...