LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download The Document Foundation announces the availability of LibreOffice 3.3.3, a new release of the most stable version of the free office suite for personal productivity, targetingcorporate users. LibreOffice 3.3.3 is already available for download   http://open2xl.com/download/ According to Thorsten Behrens, a developer and member of the TDF Steering Committee, [...]

How To Prioritize Microsoft Patch Bonanza Full story: Intelligent Enterprise On Tuesday, Microsoft released 16 security bulletins, addressing 34 vulnerabilities in its products, including Internet Explorer, Microsoft Excel, and .Net. In addition, Adobe also released patches for Acrobat, Reader, ColdFusion, LifeCycle, and Blazem, while last week, Oracle pushed a major Java security update.

Who Needs a Cloud? Microsoft Sold 31 Million Copies of Office 2010 Full story: CIO Network World – Microsoft is taking aim at some unspecified critics on the one-year anniversary of Office 2010, saying the product has sold a copy every second despite the rise of Google Apps and other cloud-based alternatives.

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.4.0 The new release offers several new features but is focused on contributors The Internet, June 3rd, 2011 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.4.0, a major release of the free office suite for personal productivity developed by a community of sponsored and volunteer developers, and supported worldwide by local [...]

First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice Strong backing for a truly free and vendor-neutral office suite The Document Foundation provides solid grounds to build upon The Document Foundation today announced the first members of its Advisory Board: Google, SUSE, Red Hat, Freies Office Deutschland e.V., Software in the Public Interest, [...]

Live Office 4.0 Features Full story: SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs In this short series of blogs I would like to highlight some of the new functionality of SAP BusinessObjects Live Office 4.0. In the first part we will look at the combination of Live Office and Microsoft Outlook, in the second part we will [...]

Research and Markets: The Office 2010 Library: Must Have Bibles on… Full story: Customer Interaction Solutions Dublin – Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new book “Office 2010 Library: Excel 2010 Bible, Access 2010 Bible, PowerPoint 2010 Bible, Word 2010 Bible” to their offering.

What the i4i-Microsoft patent case means for software users Full story: CNET News.com You may have read last week about Microsoft losing a patent-infringement case to Canadian software vendor i4i.

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Full story: Microsoft Download Center A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened.

Busy Patch Tuesday sees 16 Microsoft fixes coincide with Adobe security update release   Full story: Computer Weekly IT administrators will find their hands full this month with Microsoft planning 16 security updates to fix 34 vulnerabilities on the same day as security updates from Adobe.

It was a bug reported to me by twitter friend Rifat Nabi (@rifat) with a simple caption fom the tweet of “Microsoft Microsoft Word Bug”: and by twitter friend Tanbin Islam Siyam (@potasiyam) in a picture with a bit more detail for those who didn’t see what the problem was in the first picture: And some [...]

Microsoft loses patent battle with Canada’s i4i Full story: Guardian Unlimited Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Microsoft has lost an appeal to the US supreme court over a $290m award made against it in a patent dispute with the Canadian company i4i, which claimed a version of Microsoft Word infringed a patented method for editing documents. [...]

Microsoft Loses $290 Million in Patent Battle Fail Full story: Tom’s Hardware Microsoft pays for old version of Word’s XML. The Supreme Court decided that Microsoft would have to pay the $290 million charge that a jury deemed suitable for a patent infringement against Toronto-based software company i4i.

Microsoft’s Office 365 ‘not ready to leave beta’ Full story: Macworld UK Microsoft ‘s Office 365 cloud service is likely on the verge of exiting beta and entering general availability.

Court says Microsoft must pay in patent case Full story: KOMO The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Microsoft Corp. must pay a $290 million judgment awarded to a small Toronto software company for infringing on one of its patents inside its popular Microsoft Word program.

The Document Foundation Statement about Oracle’s move to donate OpenOffice.org assets to the Apache Foundation The Internet, June 1st, 2011 – The Document Foundation constitutes a global team of hundreds of developers working together to improve the LibreOffice product for the benefit of all users. We are governed by an open, and meritocratic community headed [...]