OpenOffice was the first big, mainstream free software competitor to Microsoft Office, and because of that, it still has mainstream name recognition—which is a problem. Developers have almost ...

Here's OpenOffice's recent story. In an email titled "What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve?", Apache OpenOffice Vice President Dennis Hamilton wrote, "In the case of Apache OpenOffice, needing ...

LibreOffice and OpenOffice are both free, open-source office suites, but which one is the best? In this guide, we'll compare both sets of productivity apps.

Sun got bought by Oracle in 2010 and commercial development of OpenOffice.org was officially terminated shortly thereafter. When I first started using Linux, way back in the last century, one of ...

Oracle has given the OpenOffice office suite to Apache, with IBM's blessing. The Document Foundation, creators of the LibreOffice, an OpenOffice fork, can live with this move.

An improvement on OpenOffice 3.0 and good for a free product, but some people will find it awkward to use Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so ...

Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice, from The Document Foundation, are two free desktop-based productivity suites that work about as well as the other services listed here.

Apache OpenOffice is an open-source software suite that includes a word processor, a spreadsheet program and a presentation application. OpenOffice is a free alternative to the well-known ...

Just because it’s free doesn’t mean that OpenOffice.org is underpowered–far from it. All the applications are full-featured, and unlike Microsoft Office, it includes drawing and math programs.

The OpenOffice.org team has already fixed a software bug discovered by the French researchers, and the two groups are in discussions about how to improve the overall security of the software, said ...

LibreOffice and OpenOffice have pushed updates to address a vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to manipulate documents to appear as signed by a trusted source. Although the ...

Convert OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheets into a Microsoft Excel file to take advantage of Excel's built-in tools. OpenOffice.org spreadsheets default to a .xsc file extension, which certain ...