A few weeks ago I joined the free software camp, replacing my trusty and mostly reliable, Microsoft Office with the 1.0 release of OpenOffice.org. By free, I mean OpenOffice.org is an open source, ...

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 ...

The release of a new version of the https://www.pcworld.com/tags/OpenOffice.org.html productivity suite hit a snag Monday when the community experienced Web site ...

Microsoft’s Office may be the go-to productivity suite in the business world, but there’s apparently plenty of room out there for challengers to thrive: On Thursday, the Apache Software Foundation ...

What do new users need to know about OpenOffice.org? The question is worth asking. Any large piece of software has its own ways of doing things, and OpenOffice.org is no exception. In fact, because of ...

Oracle has ceded control of the OpenOffice.org code base to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator project, it announced on Wednesday. OpenOffice.org is the most popular free productivity suite, and ...

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 ...

It appears that X11 1.1.3 resolves a previously reported issue that prevents launching of OpenOffice.org. However, Shaun McDonald of the OpenOffice.org Mac porting team lets us know that there still ...

The latest version of the open-source office suite OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just arrived, and it’s a good one. While some of the improvements are visible to the naked eye, I found that the most ...

OpenOffice.org’s biggest foe may be Microsoft Office, but critics say the open-source organization has, from its inception, also been one of its application suite’s own worst enemies — a victim of a ...

The proposal to shift OpenOffice.org into the Apache Foundation as an incubator project was approved in a vote over the weekend by a wide margin of 41-5. But the shiny new Apache OpenOffice.org ...

OpenOffice and other open-source projects are hobbled by their corporate masters. It's time to open up OpenOffice for its own good. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET ...