In the kingdom of business productivity, Microsoft Office reigns supreme. Its dominating position atop the word processing, spreadsheet, and presentations heap seems virtually unassailable. Its file ...

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 ...

Why reading Luis Villa's recent post about why he uses Microsoft Office 2007 over OpenOffice.org makes me want to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007 I read Luis Villa’s post about why he’s not a big fan ...

I have been using Microsoft Office as my go-to productivity suite ever since it was first released several decades ago. Even I now find myself using both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice, thanks to a ...

While Google Apps may not be a knockout threat to Microsoft’s enterprise business this year, a cloud apps battle continues to brew between the two companies. Google and Microsoft are the forerunners ...

Project Renaissance aims to deliver a new user interface for OpenOffice.org. The team recently completed the prototyping phase and is asking users to provide feedback on the eight UI options, which ...

The OpenOffice.org community has released version 2.2, including updates to OpenOffice's word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and database software. OpenOffice.org describes its free software ...

OpenOffice.org Monday called Microsoft Corp.’s assertion that its open-source application suite violates 45 of its patents “a desperate act.” “It’s just hard to put into credible terms,” said Louis ...

For starters, the latest version is offering native GUI support on the Mac OS X platform, where growth rates are far outpacing Windows PCs (another Microsoft headache). That will make it easier for ...