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OpenOffice.org 1.1 review
Reviews OpenOffice.org is today's newcomer in an established market. Sharing a code base with Sun's older StarOffice, OpenOffice.org -- known as OOo -- has been in development for three years, and the latest version of this office suite, 1.1, is now...
[October 20, 2003, 9:45]
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
News The OpenOffice.org community released version 2.2 on Friday, including updates to OpenOffice's word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and database software. OpenOffice.org claimed its free software package provides a "real alternative" to...
[April 3, 2007, 17:31]
OpenOffice.org
Downloads OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office. Localizations of OpenOffice.org are available in 27 languages, with more being...
[August 31, 2009, 12:05]
OpenOffice.org dismisses pro-OOXML report
News OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format. The two most prominent examples of XML-based document standards are the...
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
OpenOffice 3 reads MS Office 2007 Files
Blog The release of OpenOffice.org 3 must be getting very close now; Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is available for download, and it looks very, very good indeed. In fact, if you were desperate enough, or determined enough, you could use OpenOffice 3 as a...
[September 30, 2008, 13:56]
OpenOffice 2.0 focuses on interoperability
Talkback No we have no plans to focus on Windows Terminal Server Interop as we deem it not important to the Openoffice 2.0 release.
[December 27, 2004, 11:54]
OpenOffice 3 enhancements: A first look
News The third major release of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite made its appearance on Monday — meeting with such apparent demand that the OpenOffice.org servers promptly crashed. One major reason for the significance of OpenOffice 3 is the...
[October 14, 2008, 13:54]
OpenOffice may support OOXML
News OpenOffice may support Microsoft's Office Open XML standard in future, but the organisation behind the open source productivity suite anticipates that everyone including Microsoft will have "difficulty" in making the format work.
[April 2, 2008, 16:11]
OpenOffice is easily the best office suite
Member Review OpenOffice is easily the best Office Suite. It is free, and has almost everything that Microsoft has.
[November 25, 2003, 7:13]
OpenOffice 3.0 release hit by server crash
News The OpenOffice.org servers have crashed, apparently under the weight of demand for the latest version of the open-source office productivity suite. OpenOffice 3.0 was uploaded to the organisation's servers at 10am BST on Monday.
[October 13, 2008, 15:33]
OpenOffice patches file-processing flaws
News OpenOffice has updated its productivity suite to patch two flaws that could lead to arbitrary code execution. OpenOffice.org is commonly found on Linux netbooks and is Ubuntu's standard spreadsheet, word processor, database and presentation package.
[October 30, 2008, 14:06]
OpenOffice 2.0 focuses on interoperability
News The preview release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 includes a number of fixes designed to improve interoperability with Microsoft Office. The final version of 2.0 will not be completed until April or May 2005, according to Michael Meeks, an OpenOffice.org...
[December 21, 2004, 12:20]
OpenOffice gets the Zulu touch
News The popular open-source desktop suite OpenOffice will be available in three new languages on Saturday: the South African languages of Zulu, Sepedi and Afrikaans. The new versions of OpenOffice have been prepared by Translate.org.za, a not-for...
[August 27, 2004, 13:00]
OpenOffice 3 enters beta stage
News The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released on Wednesday, adding significant features such as improved Mac OS X support and support for the OpenDocument 1.2 standard.
[May 8, 2008, 17:42]
OpenOffice confirms hack attack risk
News OpenOffice.org has confirmed a buffer overflow issue that could allow remote attacks. The flaw, first discovered in late March, according to postings on the group's Web site, is present in OpenOffice Version 1.1.4 and the OpenOffice Version 2.0...
[April 14, 2005, 12:40]
OpenOffice.org 2.0 review
Reviews OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the open-source version of Sun's StarOffice 8 desktop suite, which costs £47.36 (inc. At first glance, OpenOffice.org 2.0 and StarOffice 8 are identical. Take the Impress presentations program, for instance: StarOffice...
[December 7, 2005, 12:00]
OpenOffice gets major facelift
Talkback "OpenOffice won't pose a significant threat to Microsoft, he said -- at least not until it can guarantee 100 percent compatibility with existing document formats. Since when has microsoft offered 100% compatibility between it's own formats and...
[December 18, 2003, 14:05]
OpenOffice nears download milestone
News The open source productivity application OpenOffice.org has been downloaded almost 50 million times since the project was started, according to the company that founded the project, Sun. Erwin Tenhumberg, a product marketing manager in Sun's client...
[October 19, 2005, 13:20]
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Available
Blog If you are still using Microsoft Office, you should really give OpenOffice a look. If you haven't updated to MS Office 2007 yet, you'll be pleasantly surprised to find that OpenOffice 3.0 is able to open MS Office 2007 documents with no problem and...
[October 12, 2008, 18:03]
OpenOffice.org goes Swahili
News Jambo OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, the first version of OpenOffice to support the Swahili language, was released on Saturday. Transferring the OpenOffice.org code over the Internet only takes minutes in Europe, but can take hours in Tanzania, as high...
[December 6, 2004, 15:05]
