OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

Rated 50/50 by Sven123456789 at Feb 7, 2008

Great free product for people who don't have any type of office product. I have Office xp myself and found them very similar. As for start up times, its about the same. Haven't tried the Linux version of Open office, but from what i read, its quicker on there. All in all, theres nothing bad you can say. Maybe a feature or two that i have in Office which thats not in Open that keeps me using it, not to mention i have it already. Still, its a great open source product. Already have it installed on one of my older pc's - one with a 133 mhz proc. and it worked good there.

Rated 50/50 by Banquo at Feb 14, 2008

Just as good as Microsoft Office, maybe better.

Rated 50/50 by wiak at Feb 14, 2008

great little office suite that has everything you need

Rated 50/50 by Sven123456789 at Feb 14, 2008

Good release. Never had any probs with any of there last few releases. As for the newb moron below. Some people just are idiots. Go ahead and pay your couple hundred bucks for something that is basically free here and same type of product.

Rated 50/50 by nika27 at Feb 14, 2008

I have no prejudice against MS or any of its products, but for the work that I do, OpenOffice gets the job done perfectly, and therefore I see no reason for buying MS Office. And instead of just bubbling nonsense, and suggesting to pirate MS Office, why don't you say something intelligent.

Rated 10/50 by Alex1974BR at Feb 14, 2008

Sorry, MS haters... But Microsoft Office rules! When you're ready to play serious, dumb this OO crap, and come play as a smart kid! Can't afford MS Office? Oh boy, get a job or even better get a pirated copy. Yes!!!! I don't care about Gates, Allen ou MS itself. But, MS Office is indeed the best. Can´t compare crappy OO with MS Office. Bye!

Rated 50/50 by 4tehlulz at Feb 14, 2008

Disable Java when you first install it, close it, then reopen it. You will notice it opening much faster, and you don't lose any features (I think only the database uses it).

Rated 50/50 by mjm01010101 at Feb 14, 2008

It's a great free product for those of us *with* a MS Office product. The company I work for uses both simultaneously without issues. Sometimes we use OO to open Microsoft .doc files that Microsoft Word can't open itself! This has happened more than once. I use OO as my sole Office Suite at home and work, nobody knows the difference.

Rated 50/50 by zridling at Feb 15, 2008

Far better than MS Office because it uses the (honestly) ISO certified ODF format. Easily customizable, portable, and can be used accurately across all supported platforms. Oh, and if you use OpenOffice, Redmond will hate you for life. All the more reason!

Rated 50/50 by brusco at Feb 15, 2008

Does most of what MS Office does. The functionality that people actually want and need.

Rated 50/50 by aruprc at Feb 15, 2008

Excellent, full featured improving daily and has all I need and no bloat. Best of all its free, converts to PDF and you can do almost everything that MS Office does for considerable cost.

Rated 30/50 by kegsy at Mar 1, 2008

It's free, it works and is on par with MS office 2003, it has a ways to go to catch up with MS office 2007 IMO. ODF is just a small part of any office app as it is just a file format, the contents of those files and how you create the content it what matters for me anyway.

Rated 50/50 by zridling at Mar 7, 2008

bigmama, have you tried Lotus Symphony? Its OpenOffice with a better UI than Office 2007 imo. Also free, and comes in a GNU/Linux version.

Rated 50/50 by Alpha258 at Mar 7, 2008

What can I say... it does what most people want and need. Its as simple as that.

Rated 40/50 by LRN at Mar 7, 2008

What i DO like about this office suite is...structuring. In MS Office when you need to do something, you should look for very obvious feature that does exactly that, or something that fits good enough for that. In OpenOffice it is (sometimes) less obvious. But once you find suitable feature, or get the idea behind some ways of how it works, it starts making sense. And you can assemble almost anything from such features and use them for different things. Example: page numbers. OO puts page footer/header and you can insert anything you want there (there's special fields for page numbers, date and much more). And all this depends on page style (which may change from page to page regularly for left/right pages or by your wish), so i can make, for example, first page without a page number, and align page numbers to left corner on left pages and to right corner on right pages. MSO just puts the numbers, providing me with a few options. But this is very narrow feature that isn't good for anything else than page numbers. OpenOffice Math is also wonderous. I loved it the first moment i saw it. And feature for scientific equation auto-numbering? It's great. Works very simple, yet it isn't a special feature - it just inserts a table and creates a reference. And everything else is just like that. Just read the documentation, read the forums, and you'll learn a lot. And, most importantly, learn to love this piece of software. -1 star for stability issues. Though MS Office may also crash sometimes...but, IMO, OO crashes more often.

Rated 40/50 by bigmama at Mar 7, 2008

Needs a facelift and a better compatibility with MsOffice2007

Rated 50/50 by zridling at Mar 11, 2008

ernstblaauw, I think you mean that Lotus Symphony native file format is based on ODF 1.1, am I right?

Rated 50/50 by wiak at Mar 11, 2008

has a little less futures than m$ office, but it will save you alot in expenses and space openoffice is small its like 300MB on disk vs m$ office is over 2GB+ it does what it does its great for students, its 100% FREE and supports alot of operating systems!

Rated 50/50 by ernstblaauw at Mar 11, 2008

Lotus Symphony is based on OOo 1.1, and therefore I think we have to wait for Lotus Symphony 2 to get the best core (OOo 2) with the best interface (Symphony). (This is based on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/...hony#IBM_Lotus_Symphony. They say the core of Lutus Symphony is based on OOo 1.1.4, not only the file formart)

Rated 50/50 by bouchonx at Mar 17, 2008

Bravo dvferret !