The world's most pervasive software company and largest bookseller are officially in cahoots.

A strategic new entity, Newco, now gives Microsoft a 17.6% equity stake in the college study software and digital publishing aspects of Barnes & Noble.

Andy Lees, President of Microsoft, explained on Microsoft's NewsCenter: "Our complementary assets will accelerate e-reading innovation across a broad range of Windows devices, enabling people to not just read stories, but to be part of them. We're at the cusp of a revolution in reading." Read More...

Your mother or grandmothers likely taught you all about being productive.

Why not celebrate that aspect of your relationship this Mother's Day by giving her the gift of learning an office suite?

If you think it's relevant, this gift could really open up some new interests and options in her life. Read More...

LibreOffice has developed the LibreOffice Portable 3.5.2 suite as an extension of the recent LibreOffice 3.5 release. Free office software may have just attained a level of enigma.

It can go anywhere and speak 57 languages.  Like Carmen SanDiego, Waldo, and James Bond, you also can now be mobile and elusive, yet productive. Read More...

Last week, Calligra Office 2.4 emerged from its beta cocoon.

The Calligra Project has ties back to another community-produced software suite, KOffice. Although KOffice still exists, the more-developed continuation of that effort is The Calligra Office Suite.

Artwork like the image above by David Revoy using Calligra's Krita 2.4 application evidences how sophisticated free software can be.

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