OpenOffice is definitely good enough
There is a reason that the OpenOffice.org 3.0 servers are struggling to keep up with demand.
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14.10.2008 Is Windows XP too good for Microsoft’s own good?
On September 27, Microsoft has extended the cut-off as to when PC makers will be allowed to continue to sell Windows XP with new machines.
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29.9.2007 OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here + Screenshots
OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 realises the potential of open source.
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Download OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
The first update to OpenOffice.org has been released exactly two months after the launch of version 2.0. Five release candidates of 2.0.1 have been made available since that time, with the final build showing up on OpenOffice.org mirror sites early Tuesday.
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22.12.2005 OpenOffice Password Recovery
Thanks to pacpis for this news in our forum. OpenOffice Password Recovery is an "all-in-one" solution for effective recovery of passwords to open OpenOffice documents and instant removal of any type of document protection.
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23.4.2007 OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Final Available for Download
While Microsoft is cooking Office 14, the successor of the Office 2007 System, the latest version of OpenOffice.org has become available for download.
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9.10.2008 Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice
Last week, I posted a few thoughts on Apple Pages. As I noted there, one of my real goals in buying a Mac was to see if this platform really did make it easier to focus on teaching my classes, rather than on creating the electronic materials my students expect to support those classes.
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3.3.2008 Vista's Transparency Is Good News
eWEEK visits with Jim Allchin, head of Microsoft Windows development, to discuss strategy for the new operating system.
I will start by stating flatly that I like Jim Allchin, who runs Microsoft Windows development. A lot. When he retires at the end of the year, the company will have lost one of its all-time great technology leaders and a very decent guy.
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29.1.2006 Is Google going to make Microsoft look good?
Why do we like Google? Is it because they are the “do no evil” company? Is it because they are not Microsoft? Is it because they make our lives easier through their search, email, and other services? The fact of the matter is that a lot of people from users, to developers, to workers, and to investors like Google. Heck, even I like google! (Look at the ads.)
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3.8.2006 There Is a Good Reason to Get Vista SP1
Microsoft plans to do away with that nasty 30-day off switch. Maybe some IT organizations should rejoice and take a few darts out of their pictures of Bill Gates.
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4.12.2007 Very Good Results in Updating Vista Against Hacks and Cracks
Microsoft claims that it has seen what the company referred to as very good results in fighting Windows piracy with Windows Vista, although it has failed to elaborate on the subject.
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29.7.2008 Microsoft: a "Good Enough" Windows 7 Beta with Room for Refinement
Microsoft is in no rush to deliver the first beta of Windows 7. Even according to the official time table for the delivery of Windows Vista's successor, the Redmond company is just a few months short of the final deadline, and yet there is no Beta on the immediate horizon.
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5.9.2008 Microsoft: a Good Enough Windows 7 Beta with Room for Refinement
Microsoft is in no rush to deliver the first beta of Windows 7. Even according to the official time table for the delivery of Windows Vista's successor, the Redmond company is just a few months short of the final deadline, and yet there is no Beta on the immediate horizon.
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8.9.20008 Windows XP Departs: Good Riddance or Sad Farewell?
Two of PC World's most opinionated editors weigh in on whether Microsoft Windows XP's departure is bad for PC users or the best thing that could happen to computing.
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27.6.2008 Microsoft: Good Reception of Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801
Microsoft revealed that it was happy with the way Windows 7 was received at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles, at the end of October.
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17.11.2008OpenOffice for Mac OS X Now in Alpha
The OpenOffice.org development
team on Tuesday released the
first alpha test version of
OpenOffice Aqua, which is
built specifically for
Apple's Mac OS X operating
system. The previous Mac port
of OpenOffice required the use
of the X11 system, making the
software slow and difficult to
run...
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06.06.2007OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 Update
Released
The first update to
OpenOffice.org has been
released exactly two months
after the launch of version
2.0. Five release candidates
of 2.0.1 have been made
available since that time,
with the final build showing
up on OpenOffice.org mirror
sites early Tuesday...
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20.12.2005OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta 2 Released
The second beta of OpenOffice.org 2.0 was released on Monday, available in 11 languages for Windows, Linux and Solaris platforms. The project says more languages and platforms will be made available shortly. The release comes ahead of the OpenOffice.org Conference...
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30.08.2005Sun will Support OpenOffice.org
Sun Microsystems on Monday plans to announce that it will provide support for the OpenOffice.org productivity software suite, citing a wave of
momentum behind the open-source project. The support, which starts at US$20 per user per year, will be offered to companies that distribute
OpenOffice.org, not directly to end-users, according to Mark Herring, senior director of marketing for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org and Network.com.
"For a lot of distributors, they wanted to distribute OpenOffice.org and had no option for back-line support," he said. OpenOffice.org and
StarOffice, Sun's accompanying commercial product, are compatible with Microsoft Office and identical in terms of capabilities, which include word
processing, spreadsheets and presentation software. But until now, Sun only supported StarOffice.
Read full story.....
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15.12.2007First look at latest OpenOffice merits a second
Time spent with the fourth and final release candidate of OpenOffice.org for Windows 3.0.0 may finally lead stubborn Microsoft Office users over the
great productivity-suite divide...
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10.10.2008IBM joins OpenOffice.org community
The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM
will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including accessibility enhancements, and
will be making ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org. Besides working with the community on the free
productivity suite's software, IBM will also leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its products.
"In the seven years since Sun
founded the project, OpenOffice.org has fueled and filled the need for document data and productivity tools that are open and free. Open source
software and ODF are having a profound impact around the world, with numerous communities and organizations coming together to support these
initiatives and governments, and corporations and schools standardizing on the software.
We look forward to working with
IBM and the other members of OpenOffice.org to ensure that this momentum continues. We invite others to join us in the community and participate in
building the future as OpenOffice.org and ODF continue to gain popularity across the planet,¯ said Rich Green, Executive Vice President, Software at
Sun Microsystems, Inc...
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10.09.2007OpenOffice.org releases security patch
Got OpenOffice 2.3 or prior versions? Be prepared to download a security patch.
The OpenOffice.org community has issued a patch
for a "highly critical" security vulnerability in OpenOffice 2.3 and prior versions,
according to
a security advisory issued by Secunia on Wednesday.
A security flaw in a third party default database engine module, HSQLDB,
shipped with OpenOffice 2.3 and prior versions could allow malicious attackers to launch arbitrary code. The vulnerabilities could be exploited by
manipulating the database documents processing,
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05.12.2007OpenOffice tests show it's progressively getting slower
An effort to effectively benchmark the relative speed of OpenOffice applications has turned up evidence that its applications have become slower with
each new version...
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30.05.2008Downloaders declare open season on OpenOffice 3.0 servers
Flattened by popular demand: Servers hosting the final version of OpenOffice 3.0, released yesterday, have been struggling to keep up with would-be
downloaders...
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15.10.2008OpenOffice.org: There's No
Virus
OpenOffice.org responded
Friday to claims in the media
that the first virus had been
discovered for the open source
productivity suite. The group
said that macro viruses are
possible in any program that
supports the feature...
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03.06.2006OpenOffice.org 2.0 Delayed
Slightly
OpenOffice.org developers will
miss the planned version 2.0
release Thursday, which was to
coincide with the fifth
anniversary of the open source
productivity suite, due to a
last-minute bug. Instead, a
third release candidate will
be made available for final
testing...
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14.10.2005OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta 2 Impresses
Can the open source OpenOffice.org project ever take on Microsoft Office in the marketplace? Version 2.0 is showing the most promise yet, and the second beta of the new productivity suite is already receiving high marks from users. Read on for a collection of reviews from BetaNews readers...
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31.08.2005Chinese OpenOffice 4.0 beta takes design cues from Office 2007
RedOffice, the suite of Office products based upon OpenOffice.org and optimized for Chinese users has received a new UI in its 4.0 beta...
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02.06.2008OpenOffice.org 2.0 Final
Launches
After over two years in
development, the final version
of OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been
made available for download.
The productivity suite offers
a word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation builder and a
database -- all for free and
available in 36 languages for
Windows and Unix based
platforms...
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21.10.2005Sun to Help Bring OpenOffice to Mac
OpenOffice has seen much
success on Windows following
the release of version 2.0,
but its Macintosh brethren has
remained stuck in the past
without a native port.
Engineers at Sun are hoping to
change that, lending their
support to building an Aqua
version of the free Microsoft
Office alternative...
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04.05.2007OpenOffice 3.0 beta natively supports Mac OS X
The latest beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0, is now available, and is the first to support Mac OS X without the need for X11...
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08.05.2008OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC1 released
With development of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 now on the last stretch, a RC1 (Release Candidate) of the upcoming office suite has been released.
Weighting in 127.6 MB, the RC1 comes with quite a few updates over its predecessors, updates that are detailed
on this page. To download OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC1 check out
this page.
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08.09.2008OpenOffice.org 2.1.0 Final
OpenOffice.o
rg is the open source
project through which Sun
Microsystems is releasing the
technology for the popular
StarOffice productivity suite.
It is an international office
suite that will run on all
major platforms and provide
access to all functionality
and data through
open-component based APIs and
an XML-based file format. It
establishes the necessary
facilities to make this open
source technology available to
the developer community.
Although the main
downloads section on
www.openoffice.org still
points at the 2.0.4 release,
the 2.1.0 release is actualy
available right now. Expect
the download pages at
www.openoffice.org to be
updated within 24 hours or
less. Meanwhile, enjoy this
FTP link.
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12.12.2006Hands on with the new online version of OpenOffice.org
After going
premium and suffering some community
fragmentation, the OpenOffice.org open source office suite is being taken in a new direction by a company named Ulteo. A
brainchild of Gael Duval, founder of Mandriva Linux, Ulteo's mission is to serve as a platform for putting applications onto the web. Using this
approach, Ulteo has released a public beta of Online OpenOffice.org, which quite literally puts OpenOffice.org inside a browser.
There are of course some real advantages to Ulteo's offering, not the least of which is overcoming platform-specific issues, but like any major
desktop software application that gets stuffed into a browser, Online OpenOffice.org has its drawbacks. Let's take a look at the pros and cons of the
latest productivity suite to go online.
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17.12.2007First StarOffice, OpenOffice
Virus Found
Security researchers may have
found the first known virus
for StarOffice and
OpenOffice.org. According to a
Kaspersky Lab researcher, the
exploit is known as a
"macro virus,"
previously only known to
infect Microsoft Office
applications...
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