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If you’re thinking about buying the latest version of Microsoft Office, it’s going to cost you $399 for each PC you own (or $239 if you qualify for an upgrade from an older version). If you need at ...

LibreOffice and OpenOffice have pushed updates to address a vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to manipulate documents to appear as signed by a trusted source. Although the severity ...

I have been using Microsoft Office as my go-to productivity suite ever since it was first released several decades ago. Even I now find myself using both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice, thanks to a ...

Although Microsoft Corp.’s Office suite is now being targeted by hackers, researchers at the French Ministry of Defense say users of the OpenOffice.org software may be at even greater risk from ...

On Tuesday, rivals Microsoft and OpenOffice.org both released toolkits that support building applications for their competing document file formats and productivity suites. OpenOffice’s toolkit allows ...

OpenOffice.org has released a patch for three security vulnerabilities in its popular open-source office software suite. Maliciously crafted Java applets can break out of the sandbox (the security ...