If you think that you always get what you pay for, the just-released beta of OpenOffice 3.0 should convince you otherwise. This free, open-source software suite provides most of what anyone could want ...

Any business looking for a cost-effective alternative to the Microsoft Office suite may do well to look into the open-source, free-to-download Apache OpenOffice. The suite includes a robust array of ...

The open source productivity application OpenOffice.org has been downloaded almost 50 million times since the project was started, according to the company that founded the project, Sun. Erwin ...

OpenOffice.org, the free, open source alternative to Microsoft Office has released a beta preview of version 3.0. Among the changes in the new version are support for the Open Document Format v1.2, ...

According to OpenOffice.org evangelist John McCreesh, the free office productivity suite has seen more than 5m downloads since it was made available two weeks ago. A week ago, McCreesh blogged that ...

Apache's OpenOffice Writer is a versatile program, with one of its strengths being the ability to open and read document formats from other word processors, such as Microsoft Word and the .doc and ...

Windows warrior Dennis O'Reilly takes a look at making Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org's Writer app play nice together—as nice as possible, anyway—for those dual-booting, rocking OO.org without Word ...

With a few settings tweaks and cautious formatting, you can keep from losing features when moving files between the two word processors. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

Interested in trying out the free OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite without having to install it on your computer? Now’s your chance. That option became possible Tuesday when OpenOffice.org and online ...

Irene, meet the readers. Readers, this is Irene. For the next three months, she'll be going where few PAs have ventured before. She's exploring an alternative to MS Word, and Hands on will report her ...

More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it's hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least ...

Beta of the open source office suite brings a new Start Centre and some added features that provide a serious, free alternative to Microsoft Office If you think that you always get what you pay for, ...