<p>Any threat from free and open-source alternatives such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice to Microsoft Office's hold on enterprise office apps is fading but cloud tools are on the rise.</p><p>Nine out of 10 firms simply give staff the installed version of Office, with only six percent offering some or all employees a non-Microsoft alternative, according to a Forrester survey.</p><p>When the research firm last conducted a similar study in 2011, some 13 percent of organisations were using at least one of the open-source Apache OpenOffice variants. That figure has now fallen to five percent of respondents supporting OpenOffice or its LibreOffice fork.</p><p>"The past two years have been tumultuous for open-source office productivity. OpenOffice and LibreOffice are still serviceable lightweight alternatives on the desktop, but they have been overshadowed by web-based tools that differentiate with superior support for mobile devices and collaborative document editing," report author and Forrester analyst Philipp Karcher wrote.</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-office-fends-off-open-source-openoffice-and-libreoffice-but-cloud-tools-gain-ground-7000022114/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=10200A67H6VO">Microsoft Makes Office 365 Free for Students</a> (Top Tech News)</p><p><a href="http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/2301473/microsoft-lures-students-to-the-cloud-with-free-office-365">Microsoft lures students to the cloud with free Office 365</a> (CRN - UK)</p><p><a href="http://kpbj.com/business_daily/2013-10-18/new_study_identifies_most_important_skills_for_students_in_top_future_jobs">New study identifies most important skills for students in top future jobs</a> (Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dMgHYw1phroMeoMZVCFjdQfi0-_DM&ned=us">7 additional articles.</a></p>