Ian wants to know if he should switch to LibreOffice or – since he uses Windows 10 and a Windows Phone – go back to using Microsoft’s office software I switched from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice a ...

More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it's hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least ...

Programmers gave Oracle's OpenOffice a good code-scrubbing to build the LibreOffice 3.3 offshoot. Expect more visible changes with 3.4 later this year. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Any threat from free and open-source alternatives such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice to Microsoft Office's hold on enterprise office apps is fading — but cloud tools are on the rise. Nine out of 10 ...

Christian Schaller, a software engineering manager at Red Hat, has written an An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team to suggest that they "re-direct people who go to the ...

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 ...

Given Oracle’s recent decision to pull the plug on OpenSolaris, there has been considerable concern over the past few months about the future of the OpenOffice.org productivity software suite. Both ...

If you are one of the people that happens to be running a bleeding-edge 'alpha 1' version of Ubuntu Linux on your main desktop machine (and who isn't?), you may have noticed a particular change in ...

Oracle's (or Larry Ellison's) last control-freak tantrum was a sort of poison-pill change to the licensing on OpenOffice from LGPL to Apache -- which while technically an open source style license, is ...