As functionality traditionally associated with desktop applications moves to the Web, developers are looking for new ways to handle that computational heavy lifting on the server side. But if you need ...

A Microsoft executive has criticised the open source productivity application OpenOffice.org (OOo), claiming that it is far behind Microsoft Office in terms of functionality. Alan Yates, the general ...

The open source productivity application OpenOffice.org has been downloaded almost 50 million times since the project was started, according to the company that founded the project, Sun. Erwin ...

Microsoft Office apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. are loaded with features; but, practically getting used to all of them would take weeks of training. Then there’s one feature that most of us ...

In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards--not cost--is driving the German city's shift to Linux. The technology decision makers have already moved the majority of Mannheim's 120 servers to the ...

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 Microsoft ...

If your computer crashes or locks up while you are working on a document in OpenOffice.org, your work may not be lost permanently if you have enabled the OpenOffice AutoRecovery feature. This feature ...