Would the switch to Open Source software — or for that matter, anything that’s not Microsoft — be as attractive or even more attractive to individual/home computer users than business users? ZDNet‘s Dana Blankenhorn thinks business users, and in particular … Continue reading
Controversy continues to swirl around ZDNet‘s George Ou’s blog report that compares OpenOffice.org 2.0 with Microsoft Office. Here’s George’s latest entry, Performance analysis of OpenOffice and MS Office: Microsoft Office came out very lean and fast while OpenOffice.org Office Suite … Continue reading
Controversy swirls around a blog report from a respected columnist that compares OpenOffice.org 2.0 with Microsoft Office — in particular, OpenOffice.org Calc vs. Microsoft Excel — and declares OpenOffice.org to be a pig: slower and fatter in its memory footprint. … Continue reading
Programmers released version 2 of OpenOffice.org on Thursday, Oct. 20. It’s a major overhaul to the free open-source software suite that has become a serious rival to Microsoft Office. Nearly 50 million copies of OpenOffice have been downloaded, according to … Continue reading