The International Organisation for Standardisation is unlikely to adopt Microsoft Office Open XML format, now that it has approved the OpenDocument Format, according to analyst group Gartner.
IBM's Lotus division plans to bulk up the Macintosh version of its Notes client software, citing the Mac's growing market share.
After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing.
OpenOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office productivity suite got a boost on Wednesday when Ulteo, a company staffed by Linux veterans, launched a service that lets people run the OpenOffice.org suite in a browser.
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