Quite a bit of talk has arisen today over two of Microsoft's competitors (Google and IBM) offering free office suites in an attempt to supplant Microsoft as the office king. And now that this is happened, some are wondering if Microsoft will finally face reality and offer its own Office product for free so it can compete.

As Microsoft struggles to keep Office in the market, Google seizes the opportunity and poaches big customers

The Microsoft Office suite takes up a lot of memory, both in hard drive space and in RAM. The full and complete package of Office costs more than some people's mortgage payments. Fortunately, Office is not the only option available to get the work done. Here are ten FREE alternatives to what Microsoft Office has to offer.

My take from the cheap seats: Keep an eye on the Windows fight if you like, but the Office game is where you'll be seeing the most action. Players are already trash-talking about office document formats. IBM is rolling out a free Office competitor called Symphony and it's lining up a formal match.

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 includes 2007 versions of Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and OneNote. This is a howto for the Trial version of Office 2007 the howto should also work for the full version as well. If you would like to test or demo Office 2007 on Linux its now possiable without having to purchase Office first.

Microsoft is getting ready to ship Office 2010, but a lot of small businesses realize they don't need all the features (or licensing costs) that come with Microsoft Office. The front-runners for Office replacements are OpenOffice.org and Google Docs, but which one is right for your business?

Microsoft is set to launch Office 2010 Starter -- a stripped down and ad-supported (but totally free [as in price]) version of Office 2010. Is this Microsoft's response to OpenOffice and Google Apps? Or is this an opportunity to get PC buyers to "try then buy" complete Office suites? Here are some thoughts.

Now that the ISO standards committee has gotten hold of the Microsoft Open Office XML standard, after the vote giving it ISO status, one of the O’s is no longer needed, or wanted, as the Office moniker gets dropped.

Multi-trade International Corporation for Research of Office Software Open Format Technologies (MICROSOFT) has announced their surprise decision, that they cease to support OOXML document format (Office Open XML), acknowledging at the same time, that the ANSI-developed & supported TXT format will be a better, universal, solution.