OpenOffice.org is a full-featured office suite. Designed to compete with software such as Microsoft Office and Corel's WordPerfect Office, it includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation ...

How does OpenOffice.org (OOo) compare with Microsoft Office (MSO)? The question is harder to answer than you might expect. Few users have the experience or patience to do a thorough comparison. Too ...

In last week's shootout, where I matched Microsoft Excel against OpenOffice.org Calc, OpenOffice.org came out on the short end of the stick in my benchmark tests. The tests not only showed Excel to ...

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In a blog entry posted yesterday, developer Kohei Yoshida expresses his frustration with Sun’s excessively bureaucratic specification process and unwillingness to compromise and communicate with ...

OpenOffice.org is a powerful productivity suite–including tools for word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows and more—with one major additional feature: it’s free. Whether OpenOffice 3—the first ...

OpenOffice Calc is a highly popular program thanks to its possibilities to create graphs, formulas, edit spreadsheets and perform complicated calculations. The software is also very customizable: you ...

Members of the Apache Software Foundation, as expected, voted last week to accept Oracle's contribution of OpenOffice.org source code for an incubation project. Fears apparently exist among the ...

Programmers release a major overhaul to the open-source software suite that has recently become a more serious rival to Microsoft Office. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

A vote was put to the members of the Apache Software Foundation last week to accept Oracle's source code contribution to Openoffice.org. Fears apparently exist among the dissenters that free open ...

Macworld.com – OpenOffice.org is a powerful productivity suite–including tools for word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows and more–with one major additional feature: it’s free. Whether OpenOffice 3 ...