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Upgrades made faster:

getting faster at getting faster

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| Two things of note:
| 
| 1. The update offer of Firefox 3.6 to users 
| of Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5 is the first 
| time we’ve ever done an offer to a .0 release 
| to our user base. We’ve always waited until 
| the .1 release or later. We did this because 
| we were able to measure improvements over 3.5 
| in terms of performance, reliability and add-
| ons compatiblity.
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http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/03/getting-faster-at-getting-faster/

Then there are reports about Opera downloads doubling. Firefox probably benefits too.

Ten Years of OpenOffice.org

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| This year (2010) marks the 10th anniversary of a 
| lot of things: Tuvalu’s entry into the United 
| Nations, Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, and 
| the debut of Windows ME, for example. But much 
| more importantly, 2010 marks OpenOffice.org’s 
| tenth year of existence. To celebrate, here’s a 
| look–literally, because there are a lot of 
| screenshots–at how OOo has evolved throughout 
| the decade.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2010/03/18/ten-years-of-openoffice-org/


Recent:

An open answer to Office

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| The decade-old OpenOffice was the Free and
| Open Source riposte to Microsoft's Office
| that has entrenched itself in the office
| productivity suite segment.
|
| Originally a proprietary software
| application that was open-sourced by Sun
| Microsystems, OpenOffice has come a long
| way, with the release of its new-improved
| version 3.2. Today, having crossed 300
| million downloads — a third of this over the
| last year — this community project is among
| the most successful stand-alone Open Source
| products.
|
| Data legacy and incompatibility issues, as a
| majority of office software was already
| using proprietary applications, and
| widespread piracy, retarded early growth.
| Constantly competing with MS Office, it got
| better with successive iterations, though it
| has not quite caught up. The latest version,
| Office 2010, is due for release and offers
| browser versions of Word, Excel and
| PowerPoint, across the PC, mobile phone and
| browser.
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http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/14/stories/2010031455281300.htm
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