OpenOffice is a free office suite application that can open and edit common Microsoft Office files. OpenOffice can edit and save .doc (Word), .xls (Excel) and .ppt (PowerPoint) files. It's free and it ...

OpenOffice.org developers have put the finishing touches on their productivity suite, which provides users and businesses with an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite. The free OpenOffice uses the ...

Microsoft isn’t the only company launching new office apps today. The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 4.4, a new version of the popular cross-platform, free and open source office suite.

Microsoft’s Office may be the go-to productivity suite in the business world, but there’s apparently plenty of room out there for challengers to thrive: On Thursday, the Apache Software Foundation ...

OpenOffice.org developers have put the finishing touches on their productivity suite, as end-users and businesses continue to show interest in alternatives to Microsoft software. The free OpenOffice ...

After 18 months of development, Version 1.0 of the open-source OpenOffice.org productivity suite was released today for free download. In an announcement today, OpenOffice.org, the developer community ...

The OpenOffice.org group updated its open-source suite of desktop applications on Monday, saying that its new release enhances the ability of users to create charts and other graphics from spreadsheet ...

Give your Writer documents, Calc spreadsheets, and Impress presentations more impact by using the great add-ons for the productivity suite. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

Concerns at the Apache Software Foundation that the Apache OpenOffice project it hosts might be failing have prompted a debate about retiring the project, and triggered the resignation of at least one ...

Apache OpenOffice patches four vulnerabilities tied its suite of free office applications impacting it word processing and graphics applications. The Apache Software Foundation fixed four ...

OpenOffice has been an open-source project for nearly six years now, and the project has grown and matured considerably during that time. Originally based on the code from StarOffice, a creaky ...

Fans of the OpenOffice.org office suite can download three free chapters from the new book, The OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook. The chapters, available from the author's web site in PDF format, are as ...