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  Oracle now charging US$90 for ODF-Office plug-in

  Oracle has imposed a fee of US$90 per user on a plug-in for Microsoft Office that was available at no cost under Sun Microsystems' ownership.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 21 April, 2010 06:25

  Tags: microsoft office, odf, openoffice, oracle, plug-ins

• Stay away from OpenOffice.org until Oracle shows commitment, analyst says

  A European IT consulting firm is warning large enterprises and government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle Corp. shows proof that it will invest as heavily in the development of open-source productivity suite as project champion Sun Microsystems Inc. did.

  By Eric Lai | 21 January, 2010 06:06

  Tags: business, government, openoffice, opensource, oracle, sun

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  KOffice 2.0.0 tagged for release

  After nearly two years in the making, the KOffice project will release version 2.0.0 of if its cross-platform office suite of the same name this week, adding features like scripting support and a new shape library.

  By Rodney Gedda | 27 May, 2009 09:32

  Tags: kde, kde4, KOffice, openoffice

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  OpenOffice.org 3.1 arrives, improves user interface

  The first major release of the 3.0 series of open source office suite OpenOffice.org, version 3.1, is now available with big improvements in usability and the user interface.

  By Rodney Gedda | 08 May, 2009 14:25

  Tags: openoffice, open office, open source

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  IBM, Microsoft quibble over Office 2007's new ODF support

  In the latest sniping in the long-running feud over document format standards, IBM this week claimed that Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 corrupted formulas and data in spreadsheets created in the OpenDocument Format.

  By Eric Lai | 07 May, 2009 07:47

  Tags: excel, IBM, Microsoft, microsoft office, odf, openoffice

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  Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice's independence

  Oracle Corp.'s purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. last week is reviving calls for Sun's open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun out into an independent foundation.

  By Eric Lai | 29 April, 2009 08:43

  Tags: openoffice, oracle, Oracle-Sun merger, Sun Microsystems

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  First look: Ubuntu 9.04 stays the course

  Having rocketed to prominence as one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions in just a few years, Ubuntu has earned a reputation for stability and ease-of-use. The latest edition -- version 9.04, code-named "Jaunty Jackalope" -- continues that tradition and is mostly a maintenance release, but it brings a number of updates that should enhance its appeal.

  By Neil McAllister | 29 April, 2009 07:59

  Tags: Linux, openoffice, ubuntu

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  Office 2007 SP2 supports ODF

  As expected, Microsoft on Tuesday began letting users of Office 2007 download Service Pack 2, marking a milestone in the company's document format battles with governments and other vendors.

  By Nancy Gohring | 29 April, 2009 05:01

  Tags: Microsoft, microsoft office, odf, Office 2007, ooxml, openoffice

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  Google gets competitive, taking Gmail users offline

  Google on Tuesday launched an updated version of Gmail that lets users access their accounts without an Internet connection.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 29 January, 2009 07:59

  Tags: gmail, Google, openoffice

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  Study: OpenOffice five times more popular than Google Docs

  Confirming recent comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, an independent study released Friday found OpenOffice.org's free office suite to be five times more popular among adult US internet users than Google Docs.

  By Eric Lai | 17 November, 2008 11:46

  Tags: openoffice

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  OpenOffice.org issues critical patches for older versions

  OpenOffice.org has released two patches that repair older versions of its open-source office productivity suite.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 31 October, 2008 02:52

  Tags: exploits and vulnerabilities, openoffice

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  OpenOffice.org 3.0 scores strong first week

  OpenOffice.org 3.0 was downloaded 3 million times in its first week, with about 80 percent of the downloads by Windows users, an official with the group said in a blog post on Monday.

  By Eric Lai | 22 October, 2008 08:07

  Tags: openoffice

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  OpenOffice.org launches first native Mac OS X suite

  OpenOffice.org Monday released the first version of its open-source application suite written for Mac OS X.

  By Gregg Keizer | 16 October, 2008 11:01

  Tags: openoffice

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  OpenOffice.org 3.0 release trips up community's Web site

  The release of a new version of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite hit a snag Monday when the community experienced Web site problems that made downloading the suite extremely slow and at times impossible for users.

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 14 October, 2008 09:01

  Tags: openoffice