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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]

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. OpenOffice.org announced that the final release of version 1.1 of the software is available for free download...

[October 2, 2003, 10:15]

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]

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]

StarOffice 6.0 review

Reviews The company gave most of the code to an organization called OpenOffice.org. For one thing, StarOffice offers traditional technical support, via telephone or email calls or email, unlike OpenOffice.org.

[May 20, 2002, 18:19]

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. Although OpenOffice.org could view a document created by Microsoft Word with an embedded object, if the...

[November 27, 2002, 9:42]

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 2.0 Released

News OpenOffice includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation creator and - with version 2.0 - a database. Programmers released version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org on Thursday, a major overhaul to the open source software suite that has recently become...

[October 20, 2005, 15:50]

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]

OpenOffice Releases Version 1.1.2

News OpenOffice, the open-source sibling of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice, includes a word processor, spreadsheet program and other workplace basics and is winning growing support from governments and other large-scale customers looking for an...

[June 22, 2004, 10:20]

OpenOffice Updated And Globalised

News OpenOffice is the open-source sibling of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice, a software package that includes a word processor, spreadsheet application and other software tools. A beta release of version 1.1 of OpenOffice is available now from OpenOffice...

[March 27, 2003, 11:21]

Alternatives To Microsoft Office review

Reviews OpenOffice.org 2 is the (free) open-source version of StarOffice. Only Apple's iWork, Microsoft Office, ThinkFree and OpenOffice work with Macs. OpenOffice 2 Word processor For example, although Microsoft Word has more users, Corel WordPerfect is...

[November 29, 2006, 11:13]

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]

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]

IBM Takes On Microsoft With ODF-based Symphony

News Lotus Symphony, based around the open-source OpenOffice.org, has been available as a free beta download since September 2007, and the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs are already bundled in IBM's Notes products.

[June 6, 2008, 15:02]

Office 12 To 'bring XML To The Masses'

News Sun said last year that it would create document filters for OpenOffice.org . Microsoft has also pledged to provide appropriate documentation for and encourage the creation of "filters" by other software makers that would allow other applications...

[June 2, 2005, 9:15]


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