LibreOffice and OpenOffice have pushed updates to address a vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to manipulate documents to appear as signed by a trusted source. Although the severity ...

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 ...

Here's OpenOffice's recent story. In an email titled "What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve?", Apache OpenOffice Vice President Dennis Hamilton wrote, "In the case of Apache OpenOffice, needing to ...

OpenOffice was the first big, mainstream free software competitor to Microsoft Office, and because of that, it still has mainstream name recognition—which is a problem. Developers have almost all ...

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 ...