Microsoft OR NOT Microsoft? Multi Billionaire Bill Gates founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. He is one of the most despised people in the world as a consequence of his success. Microsoft has a strangle hold over the PC market due to the use of Microsoft products on most new computers.
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Thursday 28 January 2010

Open Office

Open office can be downloaded from Sun-Java and other free download sites. Click here to download

OpenOffice.org (OO.o or OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is an open source software application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. It is distributed as free software and written using its own GUI toolkit. It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others. As of November 2009, OpenOffice supports over 110 languages.[3]

OpenOffice.org was originally derived from StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released in July 2000 with the aim of reducing the dominant market share of Microsoft Office by providing a free and open alternative; later versions of StarOffice are based upon OpenOffice.org with additional proprietary components.[5]

The project and software are informally referred to as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by a company in the Netherlands co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff and is also in use by Orange UK,[6] requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name.[7] Although branded as OpenOffice.org, the office suite included in most Linux distributions (including Ubuntu, OpenSuse and Mandriva) is actually a fork called Go-oo
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