If productivity is your jam, you'll be glad to know that Linux has several outstanding office suites ready to use.

MandrakeSoft released a new version of its Linux operating system distribution for servers and workstations on Thursday, with improvements to make the software more stable and flexible, as well as ...

Linux distributor SuSE is hoping to attract desktop users to its operating system with a new edition of its software, which allows it to run Microsoft Office and other Windows applications. In January ...

Linux continues to make gains in the server area, but broader acceptance for use on the desktop has long been held back by a lack of business productivity applications. ThinkFree hopes to change that ...

Notable commercial companies in the Linux desktop space--including Ximian, Xandros, CodeWeavers, MandrakeSoft and SuSE Linux AG--announced on Wednesday the creation of the Desktop Linux Consortium.

CodeWeavers announced Monday new software that will allow Linux servers to host Microsoft Office and other Windows productivity applications, which can then be accessed through a Web browser.

With increasing chatter about whether 2007 will be the "Year of the Linux Desktop," you hear considerably less about whether it's time for the Linux Office. But business desktops aren't just islands ...

FRAMINGHAM — Embattled software vendor Corel Corp. Tuesday announced that it will focus on graphics tools as its main source of future revenue growth, as part of a restructuring plan that also ...

IBM reportedly is working with Microsoft to port the Redmond, Washington-based company’s popular Office desktop software to the Linux platform, which IBM has wholeheartedly endorsed and leveraged to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Schleswig-Holstein plans to shift roughly 25,000 PCs from Windows to Linux. Microsoft Office will ...