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PC Magazine August 17, 2005 Edward Mendelson |
Office Software on the Cheap OpenOffice.org and ThinkFree, low-cost alternatives to Microsoft Office, offer compatibility and similar features at a reasonable price. |
PC Magazine November 26, 2007 Edward Mendelson |
The Best Office Alternatives Most of us use Microsoft Office, but there are plenty of alternatives. Is there one that's better, cheaper, or more convenient for you to use? |
InternetNews February 12, 2010 |
OpenOffice 3.2 Lands Amid Critical Changes The new OpenOffice.org release offers a handful of tweaks and improvements. But with an independent Sun now largely out of the picture, what's in store for the project's future? |
PC Magazine February 3, 2004 Edward Mendelson |
StarOffice 7 Makes a Run at Office Can Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 7 supplant Microsoft Office on your desktop? |
PC Magazine January 19, 2006 Mendelson & Dragan |
Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Edition Get the office apps you need, minus the aggravation, with Corel WordPerfect Office X3... StarOffice 8.0... OpenOffice.org... Microsoft Office 12 Beta 1 and its components... |
PC Magazine October 27, 2004 Sarah Pike |
Freeware Goes To Work Three viable office suites that don't cost a cent, as well as free word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database applications: OpenOffice.org 1.1.2... 602PC Suite 4.1... Powerbullet Presenter 1.35... AbiWord 2.0 ... etc. |
PC Magazine December 29, 2005 Mendelson & Dragen |
StarOffice 8.0 StarOffice 8.0 has everything you need to make the break from Microsoft Office... Openoffice.org 2.0... Microsoft Office 12... Microsoft Word 12... Microsoft Excel 12... Microsoft Outlook 12... Microsoft PowerPoint 12... Microsoft Access 12... etc. |
InternetNews May 8, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner |
OpenOffice 3.1 Gets a Makeover With 60 million downloads of its last version, open source office software aims to look better. |
PC World June 2005 Edward N. Albro |
OpenOffice.org Offers a Suite Alternative The beta of version 2 adds a database application and makes some minor tweaks. |
PC Magazine April 12, 2004 Edward Mendelson |
WordPerfect Office 12 Standard Edition Those who need an MS Office-compatible suite but can't swing the purchase price for MS Office should take a look. |
InternetNews September 12, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Open Season in Massachusetts Expect short-term pain before long-term gain with the commonwealth's proposed switch to the OpenDocument standard. |
Entrepreneur December 2003 Hyman & Kooser |
Tech Buzz Improving your business's Web search status... a full office suite for next-to-nothing... etc. |
PC World January 3, 2007 Christopher Null |
DataViz Documents To Go Premium Edition 9 This suite is the best way to edit files on your Palm, but the latest version adds few new tricks. |
PC Magazine May 20, 2010 Edward Mendelson |
Office 2010: Not Your Only Choice Microsoft Office 2010 is the obvious choice when it comes to office suites. But is it always the right one? What about Google Docs, OpenOffice.org, Zoho, or Coral WordPerfect Office? Is one of these alternatives right for you? |
InternetNews August 9, 2005 David Needle |
ThinkFree's Office Alternative For Linux ThinkFree Office 3 is a low-cost Microsoft-compatible package that brings a familiar interface to the Linux platform. |
PC World August 2004 Harry McCracken |
WordPerfect, Microsoft Office Style If you can't beat Microsoft Office, mimic it--at a lower price. That's the philosophy behind WordPerfect Office 12. |
PC World November 28, 2006 Arar et al. |
Microsoft Office 2007: A Worthy Upgrade This redesigned productivity suite is powerful and full featured, once you get used to the changes. |
InternetNews October 3, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Next Up: Google Office? Google and Sun expected to announce cooperation on a hosted version of an open source productivity suite. |
PC Magazine October 17, 2006 Edward Mendelson |
Google Docs & Spreadsheets Google Docs & Spreadsheets online word processor and spreadsheet isn't perfect, but it's one of our favorite no-software-necessary productivity apps. |
PC Magazine May 11, 2010 Edward Mendelson |
Microsoft Office 2010 Microsoft delivers serious power and polish with Office 2010, but unless you need its new high-end features (like 64-bit code, for big Excel spreadsheets), it's an early-adopter, power-user product.... OpenOffice... Zoho... |
Linux Journal February 1, 2007 Marcel Gagne |
Cooking with Linux - Words, Words, Words... When it comes to being understood and sharing information, it's not just about open source, it's about open standards. |
InternetNews May 23, 2005 Jim Wagner |
A Standard Set For The Office Officials at the non-profit standards body OASIS, announced its approval of the OpenDocuments 1.0 specification as a standard XML format for text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents. |
InternetNews September 28, 2004 Michael Singer |
Open Office XML May Satisfy ISO A letter to Sun Microsystems' COO Jonathan Schwartz by the European Commission this week may set the stage for the International Organization for Standardization to adopt the Open Office XML format as an ISO standard. |
PC World July 2003 Dennis O'Reilly |
The 'Other' Office Suite WordPerfect Office 11 is a basic, less expensive alternative to the market leader. |
PC World January 2002 George Campbell |
Low-Cost Microsoft Office Alternatives StarOffice 6 and EasyOffice Premium 3 offer low-priced office suites with varying features... |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2008 Anders Bylund |
The Fall of Microsoft Office It will be long, slow, and painful, and Redmond won't know how to stop it. |
Inc. July 2009 John Brandon |
Cheap Alternatives to PowerPoint These three presentation tools, SlideRocket, Zoho Show, and Impress are like PowerPoint, only free. |
PC Magazine February 18, 2009 Edward Mendelson |
OpenOffice.org: 7 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do OpenOffice.org has tricks even Office can't manage. Here are a few that may not be obvious, plus a few ways to make it less annoying out of the box. |
InternetNews September 10, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
IBM Joins OpenOffice Group, Contributes Code The time may finally be right for OpenOffice to make headway against Microsoft's Office "hegemony," so IBM is adding its weight to the putsch. |
InternetNews October 13, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
OpenOffice Hits 3.0: Can It Challenge Microsoft? Latest release ups the feature count, but Microsoft still isn't worried about the open source world's alternative to Office. |
InternetNews October 3, 2005 Jim Wagner |
PDFs Native to The New Office Microsoft's upcoming Office suite will include support for the format. Will Adobe feel the pressure? |
The Motley Fool September 8, 2005 Francois Olivier |
Microsoft's New England Nemesis How will Massachusetts' move toward open source documents affect the software giant? |
InternetNews April 20, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
OpenOffice Taps Business Smarts Open source productivity suite OpenOffice.org does business intelligence thanks to new collaboration between Sun and Pentaho. |
InternetNews December 5, 2005 Clint Boulton |
IBM Open to Office Docs IBM will support the Open Document format in its Workplace Managed Client software next year. |
InternetNews August 16, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Google Takes StarOffice For Its Pack Google is adding Sun Microsystems' StarOffice suite to Google Pack, its freely downloadable collection of productivity software. |
PC World July 2001 Harry McCracken |
A Suite Upgrade for WordPerfect Fans Office 2002 improvements are helpful, not radical, and meant for WordPerfect devotees... |
InternetNews September 2, 2005 Colin C. Haley |
Massachusetts Eyes Open Office Standards The state is considering a move from Microsoft to open standards office software. The goal is to make sure state documents and government records are accessible. |
PC Magazine August 24, 2007 Edward Mendelson |
iWork '08 An innovative new spreadsheet, a graphics-centric alternative to Microsoft Office, and tight integration with Mac OS X are at the core of Apple's iWork '08. |
InternetNews July 3, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
Massachusetts to OK Microsoft OpenXML Formats Massachusetts' Information Technology Division published its proposal mandating the use of open formats for all public documents, and included Microsoft's Office Open XML on the list as well as the OpenDocument Format. |
InternetNews November 13, 2007 Christopher Saunders |
Big Blue Inches Along With Lotus Symphony IBM's free alternative to Microsoft Office gets an update and an aggressive release schedule. But will it be enough to rival the market leader? |
PC World December 2002 Harry McCracken |
Office in Your Pocket Dataviz's new Documents to Go 5 Premium offers a broad roundup of Palm applications. |
PC World October 22, 2002 Yardena Arar |
Microsoft Unveils Office 11 First beta reveals XML support enhancing collaborative functions, plus updated Outlook. |
Linux Journal August 2000 Jon Valesh |
Product Review WordPerfect Office 2000 Deluxe... Whether you like the interface or not, some of the features are undeniably cute, and some are better than the competition. |
InternetNews September 28, 2010 |
LibreOffice Challenges OpenOffice Leading Linux distributors back a new, and separate, direction for the open source OpenOffice.org suite. |
The Motley Fool December 18, 2008 Anders Bylund |
Microsoft's Latest Kiss of Death But this time, "embrace, extend, extinguish" might not work. |
PC Magazine September 18, 2003 Matthew P. Graven |
Microsoft Office 2003: A New Strategy Depending on how you use the suite, the changes range anywhere from moderately useful to ground breaking. |
CFO February 1, 2008 John Goff |
Radical Cells Free spreadsheets? Google, OpenOffice, and others offer intriguing alternatives to Microsoft Excel. |
InternetNews March 5, 2007 Michael Hickins |
Novell: Word, Meet Open Source Novell has produced a translator, available for download on its site, that allows users of OpenOffice, Novell's version of ODF, to read and edit documents produced using Microsoft Word 2007. |
PC World November 21, 2006 Michael S. Lasky |
Your Online Office Internet productivity suites innovate with online sharing and storage, but don't yet challenge Microsoft for document-creation features. |
InternetNews December 17, 2010 |
Oracle Releases Open Office 3.3, Cloud Office Oracle updates its open source office suite in version 3.3 with an array of new features, debuts new Cloud Office Java server application available through a licensing agreement. |