More in this Special Report

• Munich embraces Linux at last

  News The City of Munich has finally started to migrate to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned

• Pioneering desktop Linux project put on ice

  News Ambitious plans by Bergen to move to an open source desktop environment have been suspended.

• Taking on the Office gorilla, online

  News T J Kang, chief executive of online Office start-up ThinkFree, hopes his company can steal a chunk of Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar revenue while the software giant drags its feet

• $100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'

  News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and founder of MIT's media lab

• Desktop Linux for small business

  Group Test Is your business ready to take the open source plunge? We test five leading desktop Linux distributions and come up with one winner

• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: a first look

  Preview Although it won't ship until spring 2007, Steve Jobs has given a public preview of Apple's next operating system.

• Alternatives to Microsoft Office

  Buyer's Guide In the world of productivity suites, Corel's WordPerfect Office X3 and StarOffice 8 aren't the dominant players, but they each bring strong qualities to the field, such as affordability and ease of use. Still, do they have what it takes to stand up to Microsoft Office?

• Type and travel: Web-based word processors

  Buyer's Guide Who needs to buy desktop software when free online word processors let you write all you want, access your files anywhere and invite other people to get on the same page?