Open Office

Why cough up hundreds for Microsoft Office™ when there’s a credible alternative for free? I am writing this blog post on a new laptop PC that I’ve had for a couple of months now. It came preloaded with a trial copy of Microsoft’s omnipotent 2007 Office™ suite of business applications which includes the likes of Word™, Excel™ and PowerPoint™ etc. Great I thought! After all, like millions of others; MS Office is my staple office application when it comes to word processing and spreadsheet work. I’ve used it for years and have the 2003 version installed on the 3 other PCs I have in ... Read Full Story

Add to the catalog of European governments and agencies adopting OpenOffice.org two more: eGov Monitor announces that Germany’s city of Munster has chosen to standardize on OpenOffice for its school IT in German City Münster Launches Pilot Project For its Schools To Adopt Open Source Software : At the moment, teachers are trying out OpenOffice in two schools. The suite will be made available to all schools in November 2009. “We plan to make OpenOffice the default office application for schools”, said Citeq’s spokesperson Stefan Schoenfelder. The second note comes from OpenOffice.org community member Leif Lodahl of the Danish localization project, who writes: We ... Read Full Story

This post will be talking primarily about how to stop paying the corporate companies the money that they don't need anymore. H ow much money do you think that Microsoft is making per year? Enough that Bill Gates was the richest man in the world for quite some time! Lets think logically here. How much is does it cost you to purchase a copy of the latest Microsoft Office software? Well, I can take the guess work out of the thinking process and simply tell you how much it cost. As of right now, August 31st. 2009, Microsoft Office is charging a whooping total of $99.00 dollars, and it is already marked ... Read Full Story

OpenOffice.org 3.2 Beta for Linux is a great alternative to MS Office. In this free and even open source! Contains everything needed for an office suite - word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, graphics and a lot of other things, as most are better than the proposals of the Microsoft. With the opportunity to create HTML files, spreadsheets and many others. The package works with the increasingly popular and highly prospective documentary format, ODF. This suite is fully compatible with popular Microsoft Office, which will undoubtedly surprise you with its reliability, power and especially its price: free. read more Read Full Story

Right about now, OpenOffice.org is celebrating its ninth birthday. (Catch www.openoffice.org for the birthday cake logo before it’s gone!) The project and the software have achieved much in nine years. Highlights to date include helping launch the OpenDocument Format, creating a complex application that supports all the main computer platforms, distributing hundreds of millions of copies, building a userbase of possibly one hundred million users, and saving governments, businesses, students and home users hundreds of millions of dollars collectively in software licensing fees. Here’s to the next nine! Read Full Story