3 challenges raised to Microsoft Office
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| OpenOffice and Symphony are compatible with the OpenDocument format (ODf), an
| industry standard that allows programs from different developers to read each
| other's documents and preserve typefaces, paragraphs, indents, tabs, bullets,
| numbering and so forth.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-bz.pl.himowitz27sep27,0,6859703.column?coll=bal_sports_college_basketball_mens_xpromo
http://tinyurl.com/37f7gh
The OpenCD had just been forked
Mutiny aboard the good ship TheOpenCD
http://ccg.id.au/blog/?p=88
Related:
And the centre of your desktop is...
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| We had an overwhelming response to our reader poll in this area with over
| 4,800 of you participating, so thanks to those who took the time.
|
| [...]
|
| The only competition at the moment is from open source office suites,
| OpenOffice in particular, which around one in five Reg readers are
| personally using.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/desktop_office_suites/
Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000 businesses
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| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
| enterprise product boss.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong
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| Simon's official response explained the business rationale behind
| offering support for OpenOffice.org: "OpenOffice.org has becomep
| henomenally successful, Sun alone has shipped more than 70 million
| copies of OpenOffice.org 2.0," he said. "Out there, there
| are maybe 100 million copies of OpenOffice.org. It would be
| senseless to ignore that opportunity."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html
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