OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

Rated 40/50 by monzi at Jun 25, 2008

I would give it a 3 if it wasnt free. But since its free some things can be forgiven. Main problem with this office package is that its so slow compared to MS Office

Rated 50/50 by improvelence at Jun 26, 2008

I have to agree with Daddy_Spank...I mean I love what they are doing here but MS has a good thing going with their Office package, nothing else compares. Its a shame they didn't put that kind of quality into their operating system. Anyhow, I still do use OpenOffice on both my mac, linux and even my windows box from time to time for odt files and whatnot but in a perfect world, MS office Would come with windows and everyone would be happy. I still give this a 5 because its the next best thing and it does not cost a thing, which is awesome. Thanks Open Source.

Rated 20/50 by Daddy_Spank at Jun 26, 2008

its only good because its free. But Office 2007 is simply a lot better.

Rated 50/50 by charlie---- at Jun 28, 2008

daddy spank still openoffice is new but believe me that ooo just looks like a twin of ms word but it also includes some more features if you chech you ll know and believe me its better

Rated 10/50 by BigDick at Jul 3, 2008

LOL ! Finally a Microsoft concurrent that ends up even bloatier and slower than the original.

Rated 30/50 by Daddy_Spank at Jul 4, 2008

So let me get this... People diss MS when they copy features, but as long as its Open Source, copying a whole office suite is totally fine. Am I right? Its just that I hate the double standards here.

Rated 40/50 by bigmama at Jul 4, 2008

very good alternative mso2007 is much better ooo sucks in speed a better compatibility with mso is needed too

Rated 40/50 by Umapathy at Jul 5, 2008

I am on a dialup link now. Not yet downloaded the program. But by the way is there any way to make silent installer if so does any body knows the switches? Would appreciate if some body makes nLite addon. Further I have noticed conditional formating in Microsoft Excel 2003 has limitation and Excel 2007 doesn't have any limitation at all? has this been changed in Open office Calc? Would appreciate if they make such changes atleast 5 conditional formating. My job makes use of such feature. Thanks in advance.

Rated 20/50 by darkxiiindp at Jul 5, 2008

Microsoft Office's wannabe. Everything OpenOffice does is trying to copy Microsoft Office feature. 3 star (normal software, no good, no bad) but -1 for being slow.

Rated 10/50 by Sloeberke at Jul 6, 2008

Not bad, But what do I do with all my Outlook-things?

Rated 40/50 by rhy7s at Jul 7, 2008

Prefer the OO.o interface over Office, doesn't try and second guess you all the time. The styles and formatting interface is much easier to use and encourages the use of well structured documents. Great to have the future proofing of an open format. Overall a solid and workman-like offering.

Rated 50/50 by AntiochMedia at Jul 11, 2008

As an enthusiast, I would appreciate if an abbreviated update log would appear on BN... OOo doesn't have the most intuitive website.

Rated 40/50 by Jaz-M-Taz at Jul 13, 2008

I've used OpenOffice for several years now, but the latest series of Dev builds and betas seem to be having some problems. The file associations have not worked for some time now, and I'm having to manually create them each time there is a new release. Now the spell check dictionary seems to have no entries, so it tells me that everything is mispelled?

Rated 40/50 by osric at Jul 17, 2008

Any torrent links? http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p doesn't seem to work.

Rated 50/50 by tickleonthetum at Aug 2, 2008

OOo is finally an MSOffice beater in all but one respect... background saving. It is very annoying when working on a very large or complex document to have to wait while it performs a save. MS Word allows you to continue working while it saves the document in the background, and so should OOo!

Rated 50/50 by some guy at Sep 5, 2008

hey its free and works well. MS fan boys be quite think before you speak

Rated 50/50 by Jaz-M-Taz at Sep 5, 2008

Great Job everyone. The file associations seem to be fixed again, and the spell check dictionaries are also. And I love the new splash screens, and icon cahnges.

Rated 20/50 by Louis Serveaux at Sep 5, 2008

One of the few free alternatives that is actually more slow, buggy and bloated than it's paid ancestor.

Rated 50/50 by roj at Sep 5, 2008

Eagerly awaiting the final. Dumped the oversized, overbloated and overpriced Microshaft rubbish years ago and never looked back. OOo does not insinuate itself into my OS, doesn't include vast numbers of "features", 85% of which no mere mortal uses and gets the job done with no predatory licensing based on FUD. Got my kids to use this so the latest myth of "usability" (the ridiculous ribbon in 2007) doesn't get perpetuated. Never seen the corrupt nonsense mentioned here. Bravo, OOo! FIVE stars for excellence.

Rated 20/50 by Undesired Username at Sep 5, 2008

You call OpenOrifice.org a "MS Office beater"? Yeah, right. I stopped using OpenOrifice.org when I discovered that it created corrupt versions of MS Word documents. So much for "compatibility". (I don't care who has seen or not seen similar behavior.) The proofing features and the overall performance are also not up to snuff, and the help system blows as well. I bet the vast majority of the MS Office haters have never even owned a copy of MS Office, or if they have, it was in 1996.