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Ars Technica: OpenOffice.org Less Secure than Microsoft Office?

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“OpenOffice.org has been increasing in both popularity and
visibility over the past several months. Version 2.0 has added a
number of new features to bring it closer to feature parity with
Microsoft Office, and it also offers full support for the Open
Document format. However, a report just released by the French
Ministry of Defense says that it still falls short of Microsoft’s
office suite in one important area: security.

“The classified report follows a one-year study by the Ministry
comparing the popular open-source suite to its commercial
competitor…”

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