It's a radical departure, this news from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) that openness between its products and the rest of the universe is more than a hollow platitude. To take Microsoft at its Word, given ...

The Zerowriter Ink is an upcoming E Ink typewriter/word processor that fits into the growing (but still very niche) category of distraction-free writing devices. It combines a mechanical keyboard with ...

Any business looking for a cost-effective alternative to the Microsoft Office suite may do well to look into the open-source, free-to-download Apache OpenOffice. The suite includes a robust array of ...

OpenOffice is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office software suite. Using OpenOffice may save your business money, but if your company has already installed Microsoft Office, you can ...

No one is quite sure how to define fire, but everyone knows what is it. Open source software is the same. Like fire, we know what open source does, we know what open source looks like, and we know it ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

If you're tired of paying for Microsoft Office features you don't use, here are free alternatives to Word you can download and start using today. Microsoft Word has its fans, but if you find one ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...