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RSS openofficeOpenOffice gets in with French taxman
News The French tax agency, which manages the taxes of all states and cities in France, plans to deploy the open source office productivity application OpenOffice.org on thousands of its PCs. In an interview, chief technical officer at the French tax... [10 Nov 2005]
OpenOffice.org 1 Software Meets Finance Company's Needs for Microsoft Office Compatibility and Cuts Costs
White Paper As one measure, the outsourcing service company suggested replacing the Microsoft Office software on employees' computers with OpenOffice.org 1, the leading open-source office productivity suite. "FinCorp" is a small but geographically dispersed... [08 Sep 2006]
OpenOffice patches trio of holes
News OpenOffice.org has released a patch for three security vulnerabilities in its popular open source office suite. Maliciously crafted Java applets can break out of the sandbox - the security mechanism that runs untrusted code - in OpenOffice.org... [05 Jul 2006]
OpenOffice secure?
News A report on the security of OpenOffice has caused a stir in the open source community by highlighting six security "issues" around the open source desktop productivity suite. OpenOffice has said only one actual bug was discovered and that flaw has... [16 Aug 2006]
OpenOffice worm in the wild
News Malware targeting OpenOffice documents is spreading through multiple operating systems including Mac OS, Windows and Linux, said Symantec. The Symantec Security Response advisory said: "A new worm is being distributed within malicious OpenOffice... [08 Jun 2007]
OpenOffice tackles "highly critical" hole
News OpenOffice.org has patched a critical vulnerability in the open source application suite. The vulnerability concerns the way OpenOffice handles '.wmf' images. Exploitation of the vulnerability, which affects all but the newest version of OpenOffice... [08 Jan 2007]
OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing
News The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released this week, adding significant features such as improved Mac OS X support and support for the OpenDocument 1.2 standard. [09 May 2008]
OpenOffice.org Writer: Writing, Editing, and Reviewing Documents
White Paper This paper covers some of those techniques, plus some other tips.OpenOffice.org also has fly-out toolbars on many of the toolbar and object bar icons. Writer provides many ways to write, edit, review, and comment on documents. [17 Oct 2007]
OpenOffice.org Meets Charity's Needs - And Makes for Good Business Too
White Paper In its search for better value, its IT department evaluated the open-source OpenOffice.org software. OpenOffice.org is an office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, etc.which is regularly ranked as "Best in class" by reviewers. [08 Sep 2006]
Google to push OpenOffice brains
News Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company believes also shows sound practical sense. OpenOffice has its roots in Sun Microsystems' StarOffice suite of... [01 Nov 2005]
Vienna embraces OpenOffice
News Users at the city administration have been offered the option of switching from Microsoft Office 2000 to the open source productivity application OpenOffice.org, and from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Linux. [22 Nov 2005]
XML Hacks: Unravel the OpenOffice File Format
White Paper OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) is a suite of free, multiplatform, open source applications for the desktop, sponsored by Sun Microsystems (http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/). The specification of the OpenOffice XML file format... [10 Oct 2007]
Sun unveils free OpenOffice for Mac users
News Sun Microsystems released the first beta of OpenOffice, the open source sibling of its StarOffice package, for Mac OS X computers on Monday. The release coincides with the OpenOffice group's two-year anniversary. [15 Oct 2002]
Shoe Retailer Eliminates Inefficiencies by Switching From OpenOffice to Microsoft Office
White Paper In order to keep costs as low as possible, Malaysian footwear retailer Jukebox decided to deploy OpenOffice software on its Microsoft Windows operating system, because it was free. However, the company found the software to have certain weaknesses... [31 Oct 2006]
Advantages of the OpenOffice.org XML File Format Used by the StarOffice Office Suite
White Paper The StarOffice office suite is based on an open source project that was founded by Sun Microsystems and the OpenOffice.org organization. As a result, both the StarOffice and OpenOffice.org office suites use exactly the same file format. [20 Aug 2004]
