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Analyst: Lotus Notes 8 No Threat To Outlook
News And, although Lotus Notes 8 offers an alternative to Word and includes the OpenOffice.org interface, which allows the user to perform word processing tasks from within the client, including working on Microsoft Office documents, Wiggins is unsure...
[September 21, 2007, 8:24]
Type And Travel: Web-based Word Processors review
Reviews Should you seek the security of a desktop companion to your online word processor, only ThinkFree offers both (although you could download the better, free OpenOffice instead). Not only do these three free tools let you import and save files that...
[November 28, 2006, 11:01]
Software On The Cheap review
Reviews The most obvious choice for word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software is the free OpenOffice. There are plenty of niggles about OpenOffice's word processor: it can be slow, some features don't work perfectly, and it isn't quite as slick...
[May 29, 2003, 11:32]
Writely Beta review
Reviews If you can't afford a desktop word processor, we recommend the popular, free OpenOffice Writer. You can save Writely-created documents to a hard drive as HTML, RTF, Word, OpenOffice and PDF files or as RSS feeds.
[June 22, 2006, 11:05]
Not Only Reveal Codes
Member Review Also the structure of documents is far more simple than in the Word or OpenOffice formats. Great word processor. You don't need to deal with sections, paragraphs, words to properly format a document.
[May 6, 2005, 15:06]
OpenOffice.org Portable
Downloads OpenOffice.org Portable (formerly Portable OpenOffice.org) is the complete OpenOffice.org office suite, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package, and database - packaged as a portable app, so you can take all...
[September 4, 2008, 3:28]
Open Source In Education: Winning Hearts And Minds
Talkback If you teach kids how to use a word processor and for your particular purposes you chose OpenOffice, you may have some fear of parents howling at you about 'not teaching WORD' and then you'll find yourself trying to explain that the program...
[March 9, 2006, 7:04]
OpenOffice.org (Windows)
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...
[October 13, 2008, 23:59]
OpenOffice.org (Intel)
Downloads OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office. Note: In order to use OpenOffice, you first have to download and install the latest build of X11 from Apple.
[October 14, 2008, 0:00]
OpenOffice Gets Major Facelift
News OpenOffice is a collection of applications, such as a word processor and a spreadsheet program, based on Sun Microsystems' StarOffice. The group behind OpenOffice released on Wednesday the first major update to the open-source challenger to...
[October 2, 2003, 10:15]
Alternatives To Microsoft Office review
Reviews Only Apple's iWork, Microsoft Office, ThinkFree and OpenOffice work with Macs. OpenOffice 2 OpenOffice.org 2 is the (free) open-source version of StarOffice. Word processor For example, although Microsoft Word has more users, Corel WordPerfect is...
[November 29, 2006, 11:13]
OpenOffice.org 1.1 review
Reviews We loaded a complex 3.5MB Word document into both Offices on a 700MHz Pentium II computer running XP (chosen as OpenOffice is frequently installed on older computers). This array of options has problems, as the OpenOffice developers have left some...
[October 20, 2003, 9:45]
Google Lays Foundations For Office Rival
News Last October, Google's partnership with Sun set off intense speculation that the companies would collaborate around OpenOffice.org to create a hosted applications suite. But the two companies merely announced that they would work together on...
[March 9, 2006, 18:50]
StarOffice 6.0 review
Reviews The company gave most of the code to an organization called OpenOffice.org. That group created a free, slightly stripped-down StarOffice look-alike called OpenOffice 1.0. For one thing, StarOffice offers traditional technical support, via telephone...
[May 20, 2002, 18:19]
Microsoft Rival Aims At New Markets
News PC Suite competes with a growing number of Microsoft Office alternatives, led by Sun Microsystems' StarOffice; its free, open-source sibling OpenOffice.org; and perennial contender WordPerfect. People can email a file to anybody as a PDF and know...
[September 9, 2004, 10:15]
ThinkFree Office 3 review
Reviews For true bargain hunters, OpenOffice.org 2, the open-source version of Sun Microsystems' solid productivity suite StarOffice 8, includes a database (but no email) and won't cost you a penny. ThinkFree's ability to export Acrobat files is noteworthy...
[December 5, 2005, 11:20]
PortableApps Suite (Lite Edition)
Downloads Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go.The PortableApps Suite (Lite Edition) uses AbiWord Portable (word processor) instead of OpenOffice.org Portable and runs comfortably from a 256MB drive.Version 1.1 is localized into 33...
[October 29, 2008, 0:49]
OpenOffice.org Gives MS Office A Run For No Money
News OpenOffice.org is still slow to start -- even on a 1.6-GHz processor with 256 MB of RAM, the application took more than 20 seconds to open. The OpenOffice.org application suite performs almost identically to StarOffice 6, so it's a good match for...
[November 27, 2002, 9:42]
Microsoft To Release ODF Translator For Word
News Novell last year said it will use the Word translator to allow users of OpenOffice, which supports ODF, to work with OOXML files from Microsoft Office. Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the...
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Novell To Support Microsoft Office Documents
News By January, Novell said, users of the OpenOffice word processor will be able to read documents saved in the Office Open XML format, the default setting for Microsoft's recently released Office 2007 suite.
[December 5, 2006, 9:36]
