The Danish Competition Authority has conducted a market analysis of office software so as to give governmental agencies recommendations for public purchases. The results are a definite "live and let live" between the competing standards ODF and OOXML.

On August 11, a court in Texas banned the sale of Microsoft Word in the US due to a patent lawsuit, concerning XML features, brought by the Canadian company i4i.

The Fraunhofer Institute has published a whitepaper on the interoperability of Office Open XML (OOXML) and the Open Document Format (ODF). Microsoft had a hand in its development.

The portable version of the OpenOffice suite is now available in version 3.1.

A netbook and a good ebook reader are all you need to mine the wealth of free ebooks glimmering from the depths of the web.

Mozilla Weave for Firefox synchronizes your critical browsing information between multiple machines.

If you spend a lot of time in OpenOffice, you can use it to remind you of deadlines or to update your microblog.