Security experts have discovered TIFF-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in OpenOffice, which could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers.

The company cut costs by replacing programmers' Unix and Windows workstations with Linux systems that run OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office, said George Hughes, a Verizon executive overseeing the ...

What do new users need to know about OpenOffice.org? The question is worth asking. Any large piece of software has its own ways of doing things, and OpenOffice.org is no exception. In fact, because of ...

OpenOffice.org extensions are a quick way to add functionality. Writable in a variety of languages, including Java, JavaScript, OpenOffice.org Basic, Python, and C++, they allow developers to ...

Security experts have found a vulnerability in the old version of OpenOffice.org that could allow attackers to remote execute code. The good news is that the latest version of OpenOffice was released ...

Well, it's official: Open-source office suite OpenOffice is now a final 3.0 release. As you may recall, we talked up the beta version back in May, but for anyone who prefers to steer clear of ...

Given Oracle’s recent decision to pull the plug on OpenSolaris, there has been considerable concern over the past few months about the future of the OpenOffice.org productivity software suite. Both ...

You might sometimes dabble in Web alternatives to Office, like Google Docs or Zoho. While they're great for lightweight, on-the-go document creation, eventually you probably need to go home to Word ...

Don’t believe everything you read in the press. Despite OpenOffice developers recently debating a shutdown of the open source productivity suite, the Apache Software Foundation is not ready to retire ...

In a blog entry posted yesterday, developer Kohei Yoshida expresses his frustration with Sun's excessively bureaucratic specification process and unwillingness to compromise and communicate with ...