Office suites comparison charts

Looking for a list of office suites available on the market to include in the poll for my blog, I ran across this Office suites comparison charts page on Wikipedia. It’s quite a good place to compare software options when it comes to office suites and it also adds to the competition between the suites. […]

Written by cdriga on October 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Slashdot: Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?

A company executive from Quickoffice claims that OpenOffice.org users mostly save their documents in .DOC (Microsoft Office) file formats. Slashdot is wondering, is this true ? The Slashdot article is located here.
The question remains and would be a good one to include in the next OpenOffice.org user survey. I personally save in ODF, the OpenOffice.org’s […]

Written by cdriga on October 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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DesktopLinux.com: 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop

Kim Brebach enumerates in an article in DesktopLinux.com 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop, I would add: even if you still have Windows installed.
The reasons in short:

Cost
Resources
Performance
No bloatware
Security
Dual booting
Installation
Reinstalling the OS
Keeping track of software
Updating software
More security
No need to defrag disks
A wealth of built-in utilities

The article is located here: http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5836989728.html.

Written by cdriga on October 18th, 2007 with no comments.
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Non Windows worlds - Linux stories part 1

6 years ago, I was already tired of viruses, blank screens, blue screens, malware, spyware, the need to reinstall the operating system from time to time and all sorts of other Windows goodies which for a user born in the Microsoft era consume a lot of his daily time.

I decided to investigate if there are […]

Written by cdriga on October 17th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!

PRESS RELEASE:
OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary
104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite
Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads have been increasing since the release […]

Written by cdriga on October 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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Microsoft’s weapon against Open Source is IP

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a talk at a company event in the UK last week saying that Red Hat customers need to pay Microsoft for its beloved Intellectual Property.

Written by theFUDterrier on October 10th, 2007 with no comments.
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Older news on SCO

This article tells the story of SCO filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the decision of a federal judge who ruled in August that Novell, not SCO, owns the intellectual property to the Unix operating system.

Written by cdriga on September 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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OpenDocument is now ISO 26300 standard

Quoting from consortiuminfo.org:
“The six month voting window for ISO/IEC adoption of the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard closed on May 1, and at midnight (Geneva time) last night it was announced internally that ODF had been approved by the ISO members eligible and interested in casting a vote. The vote passed with broad participation […]

Written by cdriga on May 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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Get Legal, Get OpenOffice.org - Campaign against software piracy

Press release
One week after “World Intellectual Property Day”, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project announces a new campaign: “Get legal - Get
OpenOffice.org”. A new website - http://why.openoffice.org - explains how to escape from Microsoft Office licence costs and compliance worries - for good. Webmasters and bloggers worldwide are encouraged to display the campaign banner to help promote […]

Written by cdriga on May 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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Avoid pirated software

There is a huge push on the software market at the moment for discouraging the usage of pirated software around the world and for detecting those who are using illegal software copies either for personal or for business purposes. There are even bounties for those reporting people and companies using illegal copies of software. Can […]

Written by cdriga on May 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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