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Office 365 Dominance Grows with New Markets
Microsoft is releasing Office 365 into another nine countries, bringing its total market penetration to 140 of 196 countries worldwide. The fact that you can now get Office 365 just about anywhere there is a business culture is not surprising. But the pace at which it has developed is startling.
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Microsoft Office Is Still the Productivity Suite Leader
For Microsoft, Forrester's recent report on productivity suites and alternatives to Office 2013 just couldn’t get better. It shows that while there are alternatives to Microsoft Office, most enterprises aren’t even looking at them.
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Libre Office 4.0 Adds New Features, CMS Support and Greater Compatibility
Continuing to fight the open source Office battle, Libre Office has had a major upgrade to version 4.0 with cleaner code, improved interoperability with other suites, presentation remote control and new themes.
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Apache Outlines OpenOffice License, Trademark Policy
In an open letter, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) outlines its vision to offer a neutral collaboration opportunity, with a few OpenOffice trademark restrictions laid out, too. Apache Lands OpenOffice Back in June 2011, Oracle announced that it was handing OpenOffice off to the Apache Foundation.
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Document Mgt Roll-up: Google Backs LibreOffice, SharePoint's Records Management Traction
This week, with some of the dust beginning to settle on Oracle’s OpenOffice decision, Google is backing LibreOffice with advice and funding, SharePoint seems to be gaining ground in records management, Nuance closes the Equitrac deal, we took a look at document management on-premise or as an SaaS and Office
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Oracle Hands OpenOffice to Apache, IBM is a Happy Camper
The question of what Oracle (news, site) is going to do with the OpenOffice.org (OOo) code has finally been resolved with an announcement today that it will be giving it to the Apache Foundation (news, site). Needless to say, The Document Foundation (news
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Are Productivity Alternatives Hitting Microsoft Office Upgrades?
In the world of office productivity suites, where content and collaboration professionals aim to make users as efficient as possible, Microsoft Office is still way ahead of the pack when it comes to deployment.
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Will OpenOffice Survive After Oracle Offers It to Community?
In retrospect, Oracle's (news, site ) announcement on Friday that it is finally throwing in the towel on OpenOffice.org (OOo) seemed inevitable, but when the original fork happened and the Document Foundation’s LibreOffice project was set up last October, just about anything was in the cards.
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Jolicloud Enables Google Docs Editing in File Manager
Jolicloud (news, site) has recently launched version 1.2, introducing several features and renaming the locally-installed cloud operating system into Joli OS. Among its latest additions was Dropbox integration into the file manager.
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LibreOffice’s Full v3.3 Release Offers an OpenOffice & Microsoft Office Alternative
The first full stable release of the Document Foundation’s LibreOffice (news, site ) -- a competitor to OpenOffice and Microsoft Office -- has been released as version 3.3 and already looks set to cause a stir.
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Document Mgt Roll-up: Full Libre Office Release, SharePoint Docs on Blackberry
This week, the Document Foundation releases the first full version of LibreOffice -- and puts it up to Oracle's Open Office, Blackberry users will soon be able to access their SharePoint documents, Doculex enhances document collaboration and Ricoh changes direction. First Full LIbreOffice Release in v3.3 LibreOffice (news,
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GRC Roll-up: Dell Buys SecureWorks, Open Source Governance For Agile Development
Early January and the GRC space is already moving. Dell has just expanded its IT portfolio by buying security provider Secureworks, OpenLogic offers agile development governance, LiveOffice looks at cloud security for email and there are software upgrades from Unisys and Bridgeway. Dell Buys SecureWorks Dell (news, site
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Interview: How LibreOffice Broke Free from Oracle
Breaking up is never easy to do, but the split between Oracle and the new LibreOffice (news, site ) team has been one of the more traumatic recent events in IT.
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Oracle to OpenOffice Staff: Libre to Leave
We've all been watching, wondering if and for how long Oracle and LibreOffice's (news, site) relationship would remain amicable. After only two weeks, any signs of a positive relationship have disappeared as OpenOffice staff pack their things and leave. Libre to Leave Less than two weeks ago, Oracle
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