OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

Rated 50/50 by minasinahanmetehe at Mar 26, 2008

Hey De Julien, Speed depends, take your Office2007 and try to make X-Y chart with some thousand datapoints (this is normal, not extreme, in engineering world). Enjoy your speed... I have been using heavily and daily both MS and Oo over the past 5+ years. The only remaining app I use voluntarily from MS is Excel and they are trying effectively to degrade its usability too. There is a lot of areas where Oo is much better than MS. For example styles, linking pictures (this never worked in Powerpoint, does it work in 2007?), templates, color setup in one place for all, use of physical dimensions with objects (very easy to print picture having size x*y or print out labels from cells having same dimesions as the label package says), etc.. tens of areas where Oo is better. Try to make 500+ pages document with MS, I have tried over the years two times. Lost work and time, MS can not handle large documents, it makes suicide corrupting the document. Have you tried to recover lost MS documents, try Oo it works 10x better. I do not worry about the price, license is the troublemaker with Office. If you do something large with Oo, you know that whoever in whatever company can modify your work. Just send the same Oo version installation as you used. That have never worked with MS. Lot of lost MS work over the years, none with Oo.

Rated 50/50 by bobad at Mar 27, 2008

I'm really warming up to OOo. It's still just a bit slow, but it's been glitch free for over a year now. I have been recommending it to friends, and trying to talk public school teachers into using it at home and at work. It's ludicrous that schools should be spending our tax money on MS Office when OOo is free, and works just as reliably. Everyone should do the same, and OOo would soon become the de facto standard office suite for public schools. Personally, I use the portable version. I distribute many copies around to friends and family. Novices enjoy the ease of using the no install portable version.

Rated 50/50 by zridling at Apr 8, 2008

Made the switch to OpenOffice two years ago and haven't looked back. The suite is very fine, but its native ODF file format makes a world of difference between document freedom and corporate lock-in via that company in Redmond with its truly awful and proprietary MS-OOXML spec. Oh, and it doesn't have those nasty Excel calculation bugs that ruin your business and land you in court!

Rated 40/50 by Darkman00 at May 8, 2008

3.0.0 will NOT run on Windows ME (and i guess 98, etc) any longer! :( "Upgrade your windows", etc (the message says) - when trying to install it on Windows ME.....

Rated 50/50 by hideki at May 8, 2008

Started using it to do some work things. Quite stable so far; crashed once, but recovered just fine. I think it's getting better and better.

Rated 50/50 by Banquo at May 8, 2008

Works great here. As for XP x64 the user base isn't big enough to care about, virtually no one supports it. Not even Microsoft really. Might as well support Windows 3.1 too.

Rated 40/50 by guti at May 8, 2008

Too bad. Still no Win x64 native version. It was expected to add that native build onto 3.0 branch...

Rated 50/50 by mjm01010101 at May 8, 2008

Our company is using Office XP next to Open Office, and mulling switching over to Open Office. We will see some situations where MS Office cannot open a document of it's own type, and OO can!

Rated 40/50 by coch at May 8, 2008

He might be referring to an Excel 2007 calculation bug: try 850 x 77.1 on a calculator, then try the same in Excel 2007. There might be others I am not aware of as well. Open office is a great office suite in my opinion, although I am biased towards non microsoft products. I still prefer WordPerfect for day-to-day use though (yes, WP has its flaws, but I am used to it and it seems more powerful to me)

Rated 30/50 by darthbeads at May 8, 2008

it doesn't have those nasty Excel calculation bugs that ruin your business and land you in court! I'm sorry...what?! zridling: just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you, am I right?

Rated 50/50 by osric at May 9, 2008

Does anyone a torrent link for the beta version. The official website only lists torrents for the MacOSX version of OOo 3.0 beta http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ EDIT: Found a torrent on the pirate bay: http://torrents.thepirat...tel.4177747.TPB.torrent Torrents are really great to handle corrupt downloads. I was downloading OOo via the direct download link; but the download got corrupted. Got the torrent and gave the save location as the same folder in which the corrupt file was located. It checked the file and then started downloaded only those parts that were corrupted.

Rated 50/50 by alshawwa at May 9, 2008

an excellent replacement for Microsoft office products , but it does not mean it is better , they still need to catchup with MS office.

Rated 40/50 by spikeoscar at May 10, 2008

beta 3 is compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 docx, run in 64kb of memory, in win xp. really is a good work. trank you Sun Microsystems

Rated 50/50 by tickleonthetum at May 12, 2008

A very impressive Beta. OOo finally feels like a MS Office replacement. A couple of crashes (it is Beta after all) but it recovered from them perfectly. The only thing I still long for is Background Saving. It can take a long while to save a large document in the native .odt format.

Rated 50/50 by otonet at May 26, 2008

Wow, always keeps getting better! One feature in Calc I am still missing is the ability to move entire rows/columns. In MS Office this can be done with "cut" followed by "insert cut cells" at the appropriate location. On my PC, this beta crashes every time I select "Save as...".

Rated 10/50 by De Julien at May 30, 2008

bloated slow pile of Java-crap.

Rated 50/50 by Earwicker at Jun 2, 2008

Anyone needing evidence that the best things in life are free...! Thanks guys, this is fabulous.

Rated 50/50 by photonboy at Jun 17, 2008

I use Office 2007 (and love it), but I periodically install Open Office and I have to say it's pretty great. I recommended it to everyone I know after testing it thoroughly. Simply amazing for a free application and highly compatible with other document formats.

Rated 50/50 by alexweber15 at Jun 22, 2008

good alternative

Rated 50/50 by yokozuna at Jun 23, 2008

I have to say that OOo is great. Ironically, I feel that I will not use it, but I know that the source code is a perfect basis for forks like Lotus Symhony or Go-OO http://go-oo.org/discover/ And I am sure I will use one of them. Everything stays in the family :-)