We all have dirty secrets. Mine is this: Although I run Linux exclusively on all of my computers, I still use Microsoft Office. Why? Because LibreOffice — even if it’s through no fault of its own — doesn’t always get the job done for me. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will. Here’s why.
Long has been the promise of virtualization to bring desktops anywhere and everywhere, no matter what the platform of access. Long also has been the promise of the cloud to bring data anywhere and everywhere. Now CloudOn promises to bring both of those things, completely free, on your iPad, via Microsoft Office. Here’s the scoop …
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It’s a new year, and LibreOffice — the office productivity suite forked from OpenOffice.org — is the new face of open source productivity software. Or is it? And more importantly, will it remain so as OpenOffice is reborn under the Apache Foundation? Here are some thoughts on what to expect on this front in 2012.
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