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• Microsoft Office 2010's rivals: IBM, Zoho and OpenOffice

  While Google Apps may not be a knock-out threat to Microsoft's enterprise business this year, a cloud apps battle continues to brew between the two companies. Google and Microsoft are the forerunners in this competition, but other rivalsare nipping on their heels.

• Oracle now charging US$90 for ODF-Office plug-in

  Oracle has imposed a fee of US$90 per user on a plug-in for Microsoft Office that was available at no cost under Sun Microsystems' ownership.

• Stay away from OpenOffice.org until Oracle shows commitment, analyst says

  A European IT consulting firm is warning large enterprises and government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle Corp. shows proof that it will invest as heavily in the development of open-source productivity suite as project champion Sun Microsystems Inc. did.

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  KOffice 2.0.0 tagged for release

  After nearly two years in the making, the KOffice project will release version 2.0.0 of if its cross-platform office suite of the same name this week, adding features like scripting support and a new shape library.

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  OpenOffice.org 3.1 arrives, improves user interface

  The first major release of the 3.0 series of open source office suite OpenOffice.org, version 3.1, is now available with big improvements in usability and the user interface.

• IBM, Microsoft quibble over Office 2007's new ODF support

  In the latest sniping in the long-running feud over document format standards, IBM this week claimed that Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 corrupted formulas and data in spreadsheets created in the OpenDocument Format.

• Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice's independence

  Oracle Corp.'s purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. last week is reviving calls for Sun's open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun out into an independent foundation.

• First look: Ubuntu 9.04 stays the course

  Having rocketed to prominence as one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions in just a few years, Ubuntu has earned a reputation for stability and ease-of-use. The latest edition -- version 9.04, code-named "Jaunty Jackalope" -- continues that tradition and is mostly a maintenance release, but it brings a number of updates that should enhance its appeal.

• Office 2007 SP2 supports ODF

  As expected, Microsoft on Tuesday began letting users of Office 2007 download Service Pack 2, marking a milestone in the company's document format battles with governments and other vendors.

• Google gets competitive, taking Gmail users offline

  Google on Tuesday launched an updated version of Gmail that lets users access their accounts without an Internet connection.

• Study: OpenOffice five times more popular than Google Docs

  Confirming recent comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, an independent study released Friday found OpenOffice.org's free office suite to be five times more popular among adult US internet users than Google Docs.

• OpenOffice.org issues critical patches for older versions

  OpenOffice.org has released two patches that repair older versions of its open-source office productivity suite.

• OpenOffice.org 3.0 scores strong first week

  OpenOffice.org 3.0 was downloaded 3 million times in its first week, with about 80 percent of the downloads by Windows users, an official with the group said in a blog post on Monday.

• OpenOffice.org launches first native Mac OS X suite

  OpenOffice.org Monday released the first version of its open-source application suite written for Mac OS X.

• OpenOffice.org 3.0 release trips up community's Web site

  The release of a new version of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite hit a snag Monday when the community experienced Web site problems that made downloading the suite extremely slow and at times impossible for users.