OpenOffice and LibreOffice are the two main options if you’re looking for free office software. And, you might not be sure which one is the best for your needs. You need to consider a few things, ...

Programmers gave Oracle's OpenOffice a good code-scrubbing to build the LibreOffice 3.3 offshoot. Expect more visible changes with 3.4 later this year. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it's hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least ...

The LibreOffice suite has more momentum behind it than OpenOffice.org, and also writes to the .docx format natively. Here's how to switch out OpenOffice.org for a more regularly updated LibreOffice ...

Most free software accumulates myths. Most people only know about it second hand (if at all), but few are slowed by the fact that they don't know what they are talking about. As a large desktop ...

If you are one of the people that happens to be running a bleeding-edge 'alpha 1' version of Ubuntu Linux on your main desktop machine (and who isn't?), you may have noticed a particular change in ...

Oracle-owned OpenOffice.org and independent LibreOffice are both nearing their freely available 3.3.0 versions and show their wares with recent release candidates. Commercial OpenOffice.org 3.3 was ...