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Microsoft said to be considering a native version of Office for Linux

Microsoft said to be considering a native version of Office for Linux
  • Posted February 7, 2013, 5:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Microsoft, Software
  • I've dabbled with Linux countless times over the last decade, and besides the obvious learning curve that comes with permanently changing operating systems, I've mostly stuck with Windows because of support for games and Microsoft Office -- particularly Word. The…

LibreOffice will remain separate from OpenOffice

  • Posted April 19, 2011, 3:25 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software, Industry News
  • It appears that LibreOffice and OpenOffice will remain separate. Currently, there is no plan to merge the two projects back together, and LibreOffice will not be renamed a fourth time, according to a vague statement by The Document Foundation:

Oracle to give OpenOffice.org back to the community

  • Posted April 16, 2011, 2:12 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software, Industry News
  • Database giant Oracle has announced its intention to move OpenOffice.org to a purely community-based open source project and to no longer offer a commercial version of OpenOffice. Oracle became OpenOffice's principal contributor when it acquired Sun Microsystems last year.

First version of OpenOffice fork, LibreOffice 3.3, released

  • Posted January 26, 2011, 1:45 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • The Document Foundation has announced the official release of LibreOffice 3.3, a fork of Oracle's Open Office open source office suite. The LibreOffice 3.3 release follows Oracle's Open Office 3.3, which came out in December. You can download it directly…

OpenOffice forks away from Oracle, now called LibreOffice

  • Posted September 28, 2010, 1:49 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • The OpenOffice.org project is separating itself from database giant Oracle. OpenOffice.org is now called The Document Foundation, the future of which will be determined by a committee of developers and project managers, taking the responsibility for OpenOffice away from a…

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