Linux has made a big impact in the server room, but usability issues and lock-in to Microsoft Office have conspired to hold it back on the desktop. That all just changed.

Microsoft still makes the most popular desktop OS and Office suite in the world, but people — and even governments — are getting tired.

With the kind of fanfare that would probably be more appropriate to herald a breakthrough in medical research, some Linux-on-the-desktop activists are treating the arrival of CodeWeavers ...

One of the biggest gripes by users coming to Linux from Windows is that Microsoft Office is not available for Linux. That might be changing, according to the Adventures in openSUSE Linux blog.

Everything you need to switch successfully from Windows to Linux—including hardware, software, and Windows license management ...

There's a lot of chatter about 2007 being the "Year of the Linux Desktop," but what about the "Linux Office"? The CRN Test Center took a crack at putting together an open-source environment for a ...

SoftMaker Office could be a first-class professional-strength replacement for Microsoft Office on the Linux desktop. The Linux OS has its share of lightweight word processors and a few nearly worthy ...

If you buy 10 machines, opting for Linux could save you $1,000. (The trick is finding a vendor that offers the option. I know Dell does.) Ubuntu, like all Linux distributions, is free. And pretty ...

Office suites are important productivity tools that many of us depend on day in and day out. Fortunately, we have a range of office options to choose from in Linux.

As scores of tech companies tripped over each other last week to show support for Linux, Microsoft was busy squelching rumors that it is quietly developing a Linux version of Office.

An even better idea, though, could be to port Office to Chrome OS and thereby “ride on the Chromebook’s coattails,” as Linux Advocates blogger Dietrich Schmitz recently suggested.

The Kingsoft Office Suite holds the promise of bringing a near perfect clone of Microsoft Office to Linux desktop users. However, Kingsoft's developers still have some work to do on the Linux Alpha ...