Anyone using Linux (or any operating system for that matter) should know about the OpenOffice.org office suite. This suite of tools serve as the open source equivalent to Microsoft Office and does so with ease and full functionality. OpenOffice.org Writer works very similarly to Microsoft Word.
Written by: Alex Zaharov-ReuttAlthough Microsoft Office will still be used by “power users” who need the more complex Word and Excel features, among others, all Fairfax employees will get access to Google Apps for Business, including Gmail, Drive, Docs, Hangouts and plenty more by November.
Quitting Microsoft Office entirely can be very a long goodbye, especially for power users still unimpressed
Software Latest Releases: "The largest of the problems found in Microsoft Office according to the vast majority of users is its price, quite high in the opinion of many. This obligation on having to pay for an Office application suite has stimulated the development of OpenOffice, completely free and open source."
Beside of OpenOfficeOrg, there is another nice office suite software called KOffice. This KOffice is now reached 1.6.3 version. This free office suite for Linux comes with better GUI and more stable compared to previous version.
LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that OpenOffice.org, a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office, is not properly handling python macros embedded in an office document. This allows an attacker to perform user-assisted execution of arbitrary code in [More...]
The office suite is a relic of a bygone age--one that may not amount to billions in Microsoft profits for much longer.
Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the first (stable) release of the free software office suite since its development was handed over to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), has been released. The announcement was made earlier today. Before coming under the administration of the ASF, OpenOffice.org, as it was known then, was the most popular office suite in [...]
Grab a good seat while you can. The online office suite market is about to get a bit more crowded. Oracle, it appears, is working on Oracle Cloud Office - which will potentially compete with Google Apps, Microsoft Office Web, Zoho and a range of other SaaS productivity applications. Here's some pers ...
Open office or OO.o is a free office application suite.It is now owned by oracle which recently purchased from Sun Microsystems.From my own experience i found that it is a lot better in a numerous ways. And the best part is that it is free for everyone and we dont have to pay 300$ for [...]
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