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self-sufficient report released Friday found that OpenOffice.org's free office suite is five times more popular than Google Docs. This was gospel to a survey of 2,400 adult www
notes:internet should be capitalized users conducted between May and November. Microsoft's share was 10 times that of OpenOffice.org. Microsoft hopes to cement that lead with its approaching Office Web, as well as online versions of its quid pro quo and SharePoint manufactures to be announced on Monday. OpenOffice.org may provide some resistance, however. The latest version, OpenOffice.org 3.0, had a strong first week in October, with more than 3 million downloads. After one month, OpenOffice.org 3.0 had been downloaded 10 million times." And reader Peter Toi informs us of the open source release of yet another office suite, Softmaker Office. Its claimed advantages are its compactness and speed (making it suitable for netbooks), its top




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