After a headline lull, LibreOffice on Wednesday renewed its drive to replace Microsoft Office with the newest version of its open source suite of applications. The latest update comes as the ...

Oracle's (or Larry Ellison's) last control-freak tantrum was a sort of poison-pill change to the licensing on OpenOffice from LGPL to Apache -- which while technically an open source style license, is ...

LibreOffice is expanding its line of attack, now targeting OnlyOffice, its rival, for being "partners with Microsoft in a strategy to lock users in." ...

OpenOffice used to be the best free alternative to Microsoft’s Office, but now it seems to be falling on hard times. Development on the open-source productivity suite is down to just 16 people, ...

OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed ...

Any threat from free and open-source alternatives such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice to Microsoft Office's hold on enterprise office apps is fading — but cloud tools are on the rise. Nine out of 10 ...

A competitor to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office desktop software, Sun's OpenOffice is the open-source version of the company's StarOffice software suite. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Versions of Microsoft Office were the most popular productivity software for years. However, now people have enough free open-source options to choose from. One of the most popular of these options is ...