Over time, you get comfortable with a tool, tailoring it to fit perfectly into your workflow, then suddenly, it’s abandoned. That’s when the real frustration sets in. You have to hunt for a new ...

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 ...

A competitor to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office desktop software, Sun's OpenOffice is the open-source version of the company's StarOffice software suite. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Looks like OpenOffice might be near the end of the road, according to an email thread started yesterday by the project’s vice president Dennis Hamilton. The email thread, titled “What would OpenOffice ...

In recent weeks, Oracle has taken two premier open source technologies gained through the company’s 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems — the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Project Hudson ...

OpenOffice used to be the best free alternative to Microsoft’s Office, but now it seems to be falling on hard times. Development on the open-source productivity suite is down to just 16 people, ...

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 ...

Security experts have warned that password recovery tools for OpenOffice, the open-source application suite, are vulnerable to abuse. The release of version 1.0.4 of Intelore's OpenOffice Password ...

Security experts have warned that password recovery tools for OpenOffice, the open-source application suite, are vulnerable to abuse. The release of version 1.0.4 of Intelore's OpenOffice Password ...