News (151)

  • EC reluctant to back OpenDocument

    The European Commission is reluctant to recommend the OpenDocument file format, even though the format has been endorsed by international standards groups.

  • OpenOffice may seek OOXML peace deal

    OpenOffice may support Microsoft's Office Open XML standard in future, but the organisation behind the open source productivity suite anticipates that everyone including Microsoft will have "difficulty" in making the format work.

  • Google: OOXML makes a mockery of ISO process

    The head of Google's open-source programs on Monday urged international delegates to vote against certifying Office Open XML as an ISO standard, saying the Microsoft-led effort poses a risk to users who want unfettered access to documents.

  • OOXML voting ends - both sides predict victory

    A pivotal meeting of international delegates to decide the fate of Microsoft's Open XML finished on Friday with advocates and foes of the standards bid predicting victory.

  • Microsoft CTO: ODF is an 'elegant' standard

    The chief technology officer of Microsoft APAC thinks ODF is an elegant standard if it is used alongside the Redmond giant's OOXML (Office Open XML) format.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (39)

  • One city's move to open source

    In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.

  • OpenOffice.org takes on Microsoft Office

    The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.

  • Photos: Fresh features in OpenOffice 2.4

    OpenOffice 2.4, which was released on Thursday, comes with an assortment of collaboratively engineered bug fixes and small, but significant, usability enhancements.

  • Fighting Office with open source

    Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.

  • Six office suites reviewed

    Developers of alternative office software need to place more emphasis on ease of conversion if they ever wish to dethrone Microsoft. We test six office suites in the market.

More Features and Case Studies >

Videos (1)

  • Play now

    Microsoft denies OOXML has 'proprietary hooks'

    As Australia and various other nations prepare to vote on whether Microsoft's Open Office XML becomes an ISO standard, the Redmond giant is attempting to downplay fears that OOXML adopters will be hooked into the company's technology.

Reviews (46)

  • OpenOffice.org takes on Microsoft Office

    The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.

  • OpenOffice.org 2.4.0

    OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 is a free, open source alternative to Microsoft's Office application suite. It is fantastic if you need basic office applications such as a word processor or spreadsheet at no cost. However, large organisations and power users may be disappointed by its lack of features and support.

  • OpenOffice.org 2.0

    OpenOffice.org 2.0, the freeware version of Sun's StarOffice 8, is a great deal for small-business users who don't mind browsing online forums for technical support. But enterprises are better served by StarOffice 8.

  • The suite approach: 6 office suites tested

    Developers of alternative office software need to place more emphasis on ease of conversion if they ever wish to de-throne Microsoft.

  • OpenOffice gets programming kit

    The OpenOffice.org group announces a kit that lets programmers build new modules for open-source alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite.

More Reviews >

Create an e-mail alert for "open office"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
open office


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 7 desktop
  2. Popularity: 10 document
  3. Popularity: 7 ecma
  4. Popularity: 22 european union
  5. Popularity: 7 excel
  6. Popularity: 14 format
  7. Popularity: 5 google
  8. Popularity: 7 government
  9. Popularity: 6 hat
  10. Popularity: 16 ibm
  11. Popularity: 18 iso
  12. Popularity: 62 linux
  13. Popularity: 7 lotus
  14. Popularity: 4 mac
  15. Popularity: 39 microsoft
  16. Popularity: 9 microsoft office
  17. Popularity: 14 novell
  18. Popularity: 13 oasis
  19. Popularity: 31 odf
  20. Popularity: 52 office
  21. Popularity: 5 office 12
  22. Popularity: 21 ooxml
  23. Popularity: 18 open
  24. Popularity: 32 open source
  25. Popularity: 9 open xml
  26. Popularity: 5 open-source
  27. Popularity: 38 opendocument
  28. Popularity: 4 opendocument format
  29. Popularity: 62 openoffice
  30. Popularity: 8 openoffice.org
  31. Popularity: 9 os
  32. Popularity: 10 oss
  33. Popularity: 5 pdf
  34. Popularity: 6 red
  35. Popularity: 10 red hat
  36. Popularity: 16 software
  37. Popularity: 13 source
  38. Popularity: 11 standards
  39. Popularity: 36 staroffice
  40. Popularity: 29 sun
  41. Popularity: 9 sun microsystems
  42. Popularity: 9 suse
  43. Popularity: 7 t&b
  44. Popularity: 10 unix
  45. Popularity: 13 windows
  46. Popularity: 21 word
  47. Popularity: 7 wordperfect
  48. Popularity: 5 ximian
  49. Popularity: 20 xml
  50. Popularity: 5 2003

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured