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This article presents a timeline of events related to popular free/open-source software. For a narrative explaining the overall development, see the related history of free and open-source software. The Achievements column documents achievements a project attained at some point in time (not necessarily when it was first released).
Kingsoft Office Spreadsheets 2012 – For MS Windows. Both free and paid versions are available. It can handle Microsoft Excel .xls and .xlsx files, and also produce other file formats such as .et, .txt, .csv, .pdf, and .dbf. It supports multiple tabs, VBA macro and PDF converting. [10] Lotus SmartSuite Lotus 123 – for MS Windows. In its MS ...
The history of free and open-source software begins at the advent of computer software in the early half of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, computer operating software and compilers were delivered as a part of hardware purchases without separate fees.
Excel for the web is a free lightweight version of Microsoft Excel available as part of Office on the web, which also includes web versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. Excel for the web can display most of the features available in the desktop versions of Excel, although it may not be able to insert or edit them.
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) refers to software that is both freely available for use and distributed under licenses that grant users the freedom to access, modify, and share the software's source code. This approach contrasts with proprietary software, where the source code is typically closed and usage is restricted by licensing ...
OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite.Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed [10] [11] [12]) and Collabora Online, with Apache OpenOffice [13] being considered mostly dormant since at least 2015.
WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, [3] previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, [4] iOS, [5] Android, [6] Fire OS and HarmonyOS [2] developed by Chinese software developer company, Kingsoft Office Software. It also comes pre-installed on Amazon Fire tablets.
After acquiring Sun Microsystems in January 2010, Oracle Corporation continued developing OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, which it renamed Oracle Open Office.In September 2010, the majority [17] [18] of outside OpenOffice.org developers left the project [19] [20] due to concerns over Sun's, and then Oracle's, management of the project, [21] [22] to form The Document Foundation (TDF).