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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Apache Software Foundation has announced that OpenOffice has passed the milestone of 100 million downloads in less than two years since it became one of the main projects of the foundation. Given the ...

In its new role as steward of the OpenOffice.org open source office suite, the Apache Software Foundation expects to offer an Apache-branded version of the package for developers in 2012. Apache also ...

OpenOffice is a free, open-source alternative to the Microsoft Office suite of applications, but some features that people are used to in Microsoft Office may be either more difficult to find or not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OpenOffice.org 1.0 is now available for free download, using technology from Sun and the open-source community to attract users disenchanted with Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org developers have put ...