The OpenOffice.org Marketing Project produces daily statistics for the number of people downloading the software from our central download site. You can always see the latest version here – and an explanation of why this is a big underestimate of the number of people adopting OpenOffice.org here.
Today’s graph (saved on this blog – click on [...]

Four years ago, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project put together some web pages to present the case for using OpenOffice.org, which we called Why OpenOffice.org? It’s a sign of the increasing level of worry in Microsoft that they have now produced their own Why Microsoft? pages.
The recent launch of OpenOffice.org 3.2 ahead of MS-Office has scored [...]

Accordingly, it is Ordered that the <openoffice2009.com>, <openoffice-gratuit.com>, <openoffice09fr.com>, <openoffice-fr.com>, <openoffice-pt.com>, <openoffice-pl.com>, and <openoffice-nl.com> domain names be TRANSFERRED from Respondent to Complainant..
With this ruling, Sun Microsystems has scored a victory against one operator of para-sites – sites which extract money from naive people searching for OpenOffice.org – a free download.
Unfortunately, it is only a small [...]

At last … we now have a temperamental but intermittently usable broadband connection at home … and so much has happened in the past month. The first ever face to face (f2f) meeting of the OpenOffice.org Community Council outwith a Conference … and OpenOffice.org 3.2 is announced to the community and to the world (after [...]

One of the evil tricks we used to play as kids was “sending someone to Coventry” – refusing to speak to them – a juvenile form of solitary confinement. Since moving house three weeks ago, I have been without broadband, and feel as if I have been “sent to Coventry” as far as taking part [...]

Another week, another example of how Microsoft is being forced to react to the increasing adoption of OpenOffice.org as the 2010 office software of choice. Clearly worried by OpenOffice.org’s increasing market share, Microsoft has been forced to change its licencing terms in an attempt to hold on to its internet cafe business. Directions on Microsoft [...]

Thanks to all those who picked up on the Microsoft Linux and Open Office Compete Lead job advert and blogged about it. Not surprisingly, the ad has now disappeared.

maybe all that blogging helped Microsoft find their perfect candidate overnight? or
maybe they decided that the plan of “engaging with Open Source communities and organizations” [...]