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 ...

Open standards offer software users the opportunity to literally think outside the box—the box that holds commercial software disks, that is. The open-standards philosophy relies on the free ...

We all love free software, but light on the wallet doesn’t always mean light on the PC. https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23158/description.html is a hefty ...

OpenOffice.org is an office suite based on Star Office and released as open source. The suite contains standard office applications, such as a word processor and programs for spreadsheets, drawings ...

The release of a new version of the https://www.pcworld.com/tags/OpenOffice.org.html productivity suite hit a snag Monday when the community experienced Web site ...

Glide, the suite of Web 2.0 apps for the desktop and mobile device, adds a spreadsheet tool Wednesday and support for OpenOffice.org on Thursday. Jessica Dolcourt VP, Content Operations and Commerce, ...

If you have a nifty macro or a nice Writer template you want to share with other OpenOffice.org users, publishing them on the Web along with detailed installation instructions is probably not the best ...

Give your Writer documents, Calc spreadsheets, and Impress presentations more impact by using the great add-ons for the productivity suite. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

It comes as no surprise that longtime backers of OpenOffice.org are taking control over the open source project from Oracle, its new owner. On Tuesday, the OpenOffice.org community announced the ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Last month saw the latest release of OpenOffice.org 3.2, ...

For the last three years, I've been using a version of OpenOffice.org on all of my systems. I'm sad to say that I'm going to move back to Office 2007 on Windows XP and Office 2008 on Mac OS X this ...