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Top 10 open source apps for Windows, at a glance

Every Windows user should consider making these open source utilities part of their standard applications.



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Lotus Symphony now reads Office 2007 documents

IBM today announced the release of Lotus Symphony 1.3, an update to its year-old free productivity suite that for the first time lets users import files saved in Microsoft Office 2007's native Office Open XML (OOXML) document format.



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OpenOffice.org 3.1: The next generation

The latest version of the open source office suite OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just arrived, and it's a good one. While some of the improvements are visible to the naked eye, the most important changes were hidden under the hood.

| Product review | Open Source | Software | 05/11/09 at 3:27 pm |


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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.

| News | Open Source | Software | 04/28/09 at 11:08 am |


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Internet-wide problem to be revealed at conference

Organizers of next week's Black Hat Europe conference are promising a security presentation that could impact anyone who uses the Internet.

| News | Security | 04/07/09 at 8:21 am |


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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
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