• 

  Open office dilemma: OpenOffice.org vs. LibreOffice

  OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed in recent years by Sun Microsystems as an open source project. But when Oracle acquired Sun in April 2009, the future of Sun's software offerings -- particularly free ones like OpenOffice.org -- was called into question. Before long, key OpenOffice.org developers, unhappy with the status quo under Oracle, began defecting from the project.

  By Neil McAllister | 16 February, 2011 22:04

  Tags: applications, Desktop productivity, Microsoft, OpenOffice.org, open source, oracle, software, Sun Microsystems

• 

  First look: Office 365 beta shows promise but lacks polish

  Office 365: A revamped offering that combines the features of BPOS with Office 2010. From what we've seen of the Office 365 beta, it still has a long way to go before it can be considered a true turnkey solution for business.

  By Neil McAllister | 24 November, 2010 22:15

  Tags: applications, BP, cloud computing, collaboration, Content|document management, Desktop productivity, Google, internet, Microsoft, microsoft office, Microsoft Office 365, operating systems, Platforms, software, Software as a service, Windows

• 

  Microsoft: We're more enterprise-ready than Google Apps

  Microsoft is bolstering its cloud presence with its Office 365 cloud application suite and believes it has more to offer enterprises than Google has with its own online applications, a Microsoft executive said on Thursday.

  By Paul Krill | 05 November, 2010 10:35

  Tags: applications, cloud computing, Desktop productivity, Google, google apps, internet, Microsoft, Microsoft Office 365, software, Software as a service, VMware

• 

  10 great free desktop productivity tools that aren't OpenOffice.org

  These free and open source applications for Windows, Linux, and Mac desktops put power into the hands of users without taking from their wallets

  By Serdar Yegulap | 07 October, 2010 10:38

  Tags: Desktop productivity, Linux, OpenOffice.org, Windows

• 

  Free desktop tools that aren't OpenOffice

  Most everyone who's had some experience with free open source software has learned about the OpenOffice.org suite of productivity programs: a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and drawing tool that provide a good deal of the functionality of their commercial counterparts. For users who need powerful productivity tools but don't require a high degree of compatibility with Microsoft-formatted files, OpenOffice.org is almost a no-brainer.

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 05 October, 2010 00:48

  Tags: applications, desktop pcs, Desktop productivity, hardware systems, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, non-Windows, OpenOffice.org, open source, operating systems, Platforms, software, Windows

Whitepapers about Desktop productivity

• 

  Case Study - TNT Express successfully reduces their paper usage and costs using a new document solution

  in 2009 TNT decided to evaluate the market for new head office multifunction devices (MFD) as their current MFD fleet was almost seven years old. The objective was to reduce the number of devices and improve productivity, meet TNT’s future technical requirements and reduce the total cost of ownership of the equipment. They were also looking for a provider who would provide cost and service reporting as well as help streamline their electronic archiving requirements via the scanning of dockets and documents. Read on.

• 

  Maximizing ROI with the Microsoft-Polycom Unified Communications Solution

• 

  NEWS RELEASE: HP Recognises Australian Businesses for Driving Environmental Sustainability through their Imaging & Printing Infrastructure.