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IBM Lotus Symphony (Windows)
Reviewed on September 19, 2007
Although still in beta testing, IBM Lotus Symphony offers strong alternatives to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel with more features and nicer interfaces than most other free software.
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OpenOffice.org (Intel) 2.4.1
Take an open-source approach to office productivity.
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Lotus Symphony 1 beta
Gain control over spiraling upgrade costs while protecting and maintaining documents.
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OpenOffice security is questioned
August 14, 2006
French researchers pinpoint security issues, but OpenOffice.org says only bug discovered has already been fixed.
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OpenOffice 2
Reviewed on December 6, 2005
OpenOffice 2, the freeware version of Sun Microsystems StarOffice 8, is a great deal for home and small-businesses users who don't mind browsing online forums for tech support. But enterprise users are better served by StarOffice 8.
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Commentary: Easy come, not so easy go
September 11, 2003
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New OpenOffice version includes security upgrade
April 4, 2007
Touted as a "real alternative" to Microsoft Office, updated open-source application suite is designed to fix two vulnerabilities.
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French taxman opts for OpenOffice
November 9, 2005
Tax agency plans to put the open-source rival to Microsoft Office on thousands of its PCs.
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Report fuels OpenOffice vs. OOXML debate
January 17, 2008
Speculation mars Burton Group report that suggests Microsoft's OOXML document format is preferable to ODF, says OpenOffice.org.
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Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice
May 31, 2006
In a blast from the past, a new macro virus infects OpenOffice and StarOffice, open-source rivals to Microsoft's Office.
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OpenOffice makes government inroads
December 18, 2003
Driven by budget pressures, government bodies in Israel and Texas are beginning the shift from Microsoft Office to an open-source alternative.
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OpenOffice celebrates anniversary by squashing bug
October 13, 2005
Project had intended to observe occasion with 2.0 release, but that's been pushed back slightly.
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Novell to support Microsoft Office documents
December 4, 2006
Company joins project designed to bridge rival document formats and thus enable its OpenOffice customers to work with Microsoft Office.
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Google throws bodies at OpenOffice
October 31, 2005
With rival Microsoft in mind, the search giant will hire people to work on the open-source software suite.
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Sun to release ODF translator for Microsoft Office
February 7, 2007
StarOffice plug-in for Office 2003 translates Word and ODF Writer files; spreadsheet, presentation translators set for April.
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OpenOffice celebrates turning 2.0
October 20, 2005
Programmers release a major overhaul to the open-source software suite that has recently become a more serious rival to Microsoft Office.
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Microsoft seeks XML-related patents
January 23, 2004
The patents that could prevent competing applications from reading documents created with the latest version of the software giant's Office program.
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IBM Lotus Symphony (Linux)
Reviewed on September 19, 2007
Although still in beta testing, IBM Lotus Symphony offers strong alternatives to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel with more features and nicer interfaces than most other free software.
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Microsoft bends on OpenDocument
July 6, 2006
The software giant will sponsor an open-source project to create a converter between Open Office XML and OpenDocument file formats.
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Microsoft Office to get a dose of OpenDocument
May 5, 2006
Developers have created a way to save OpenDocument documents from Microsoft Office. The first customer may be the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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