The file manager and word processor will be ready in the second quarter while the spreadsheet and presentation program will arrive in the third quarter. Other applications include Calc (spreadsheet) and Show (presentations).
People think they can come in with StarOffice and replace Office because all they're getting is commodity word processing and a spreadsheet (through Office). This "opening up" of Office could end Microsoft's lock on document file formats that have...
Schwartz said it's a good idea, and Sun will add filters to the next versions of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org to allow interchange of documents based on WordML and ExcelML, Microsoft's respective word processing and spreadsheet dialects of XML.
SchemaSoft's tools are capable of extracting data found in a variety of formats including those used by Microsoft Office documents, Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format as well as those used by Quark and others, the software maker states on its...
The same group of Microsoft partners will now start work on code to translate file formats between Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentation software and the corresponding ODF files, said Jean Paoli, the general manager of...
Lotus Symphony, based around the open-source OpenOffice.org, has been available as a free beta download since September 2007, and the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs are already bundled in IBM's Notes products.
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