OpenOffice.org is an open-source, multiplatform and multilingual office suite comparable with MS Office.It is compatible with all other major office suites and is free to download, use, and distribute. It was previously known as StarOffice before it became an open-source project. OpenOffice comes with OpenWriter - a word processor, OpenCalc - a spreadsheet and OpenImpress - a presentational package.
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It is a bit zippier and it's grammar highlighting was supposedly improved radically.. not sure haven't seen any difference.
It is a bit zippier and it's grammar highlighting was supposedly improved radically.. not sure haven't seen any difference.
and it's still free.. i don't see any point in cashing out loads of money for ms office, when i just need basic options for writing, presentations and so forth. openoffice covers that and more.
Tell me, why should I spend $79 to do what I already do for free? And every new OO.o update, also free. Not so with MS Office.
I am not seeing an upside here.
Uhm... $79/40? Probably only where you live. Office licenses have three digits.
79$ for Office ??????????
Where do you live ?????????
Here Standard Office is 500$ CAD (300$ for upgrade) and Student is 150$ CAD. Pro is 690$ CAD (410$ for upgrade).
For the average user OpenOffice does the job. I was about to pay for Office standard (i'm not a student) then i tried OpenOffice 3 and decided that my 500$ would be WAY better spent elsewhere.
I watched eBay for a while for Office 2007 standard and i could not find the non upgrade, non student, non bla bla bla packaged version for under 200$ over eBay. This is still a lot of money for a used copy that could not be what the sellers said it was.
BTW this is about OpenOffice and not Office.
Last edited by LaP on 29 Jan 2009 - 15:51
OOo is a copycat of Office 2003, and there's a better copycat of that, it's called KingSoft Office:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/07/14/k...nt-alternative/
I recommend KingSoft Office over OOo.
However, now that Office 2007 is out, I recommend Office 2007 above all the software I mentioned here!
It's hardly a "copycat". And StarOffice as always been released ahead of MicrosoftOffice...
Last edited by IntelliMoo on 28 Jan 2009 - 00:11
When people tell me they want Microsoft Office, I ask them "do you need Outlook?"
If they say "No", then I tell them to just get OpenOffice.
One person asked if it did what Publisher did. I didn't know what to tell them.
I still use AbiWord more than anything else now though, small, fast, open source and awesome.
I have OO.o installed, but I still prefer the lighter alternatives.
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