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 ...

How does OpenOffice.org (OOo) compare with Microsoft Office (MSO)? The question is harder to answer than you might expect. Few users have the experience or patience to do a thorough comparison. Too ...

In the kingdom of business productivity, Microsoft Office reigns supreme. Its dominating position atop the word processing, spreadsheet, and presentations heap seems virtually unassailable. Its file ...

The office suite is a relic of a bygone age--one that may not amount to billions in Microsoft profits for much longer. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, ...

OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed ...

Wow. Barely a week has passed since Corel announced that Wordperfect Office Suite would be supporting both the OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's OpenXML, and now, it looks like OpenOffice.org will ...

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 ...

Oracle Corp. calmed the fears of tens of millions of OpenOffice.org users when it declared it would keep supporting the free open-source productivity suite following its merger with Sun Microsystems ...

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: ...

OpenOffice.org Monday called Microsoft Corp.’s assertion that its open-source application suite violates 45 of its patents “a desperate act.” “It’s just hard to put into credible terms,” said Louis ...