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 ...

Why reading Luis Villa's recent post about why he uses Microsoft Office 2007 over OpenOffice.org makes me want to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007 I read Luis Villa’s post about why he’s not a big fan ...

Programmers release a major overhaul to the open-source software suite that has recently become a more serious rival to Microsoft Office. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

While Google Apps may not be a knockout threat to Microsoft’s enterprise business this year, a cloud apps battle continues to brew between the two companies. Google and Microsoft are the forerunners ...

Project Renaissance aims to deliver a new user interface for OpenOffice.org. The team recently completed the prototyping phase and is asking users to provide feedback on the eight UI options, which ...

OpenOffice.org today 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 ...

Ulteo this week launched its service into beta and is looking for 15,000 testers. Its promise: to give you portable, Web-based OpenOffice.org applications including Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base ...

"Novell is cooperating with Microsoft and others on a project to create bidirectional, open-source translators for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft ...

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 ...