OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

Rated 40/50 by mjm01010101 at Sep 30, 2008

I find it funny that Open Office wants me to close Vuze which is seeding the Openoffice P2P torrent I have running in the background... I asked it to remove the previous version during install and it did this except kept the "start-->programs-->open office 2.4 folder" still there.

Rated 50/50 by some guy at Oct 6, 2008

rock solid free It may not have the paper clip. but gezz don't wine it's free

Rated 50/50 by mjm01010101 at Oct 6, 2008

This version did not ask to close Vuze while seeding. I'm seeding the torrent for a few days. Not sure how people can knock the interface for Open Office. It looks almost exactly like every Office version before 2007 (and that is a good thing, IMO.) This new version, after Writer is in the cache, opens in 1 second, which is FASTER than Office '07 on same machine. I'm testing this all on a 6 year old Windows XP box with 2G ram.

Rated 30/50 by Andy Dean at Oct 6, 2008

It does the job but I still think it's slow compared to Microsoft Office. Just to add, No I don't particularly like Microsoft, just I feel they do a better job in this case.

Rated 50/50 by osric at Oct 6, 2008

@mjm01010101: It asked you to close Vuze? What's the exact error message? Which JRE are you using? I am using OOo and Vuze at the same time.

Rated 30/50 by netean at Oct 6, 2008

It's free and an AWFUL lot of work has gone into openoffice. It has some very good features and is probably the closest thing to Microsoft Office at this point. But no matter how much I love open source and free software this is just not enjoyable to use.. It's ugly.. Still ugly after all these years, moreover, there is something about it that just doesn't make it even remotely enjoyable to use it's a chore. It makes me feel like I'm using Office 95 or 97. There is still no decent patch update facility, so the slightest bug fix means installing the entire office suite again (that's just crazy) There are still lots of things that don't work how I expect and that makes it frustrating - it doesn't have to be a MS office clone just more intuitive than it is right now. I'd much prefer MS office 2003 or 2007 to Openoffice, I much prefer KOffice to openoffice, I much prefer Abiword to openoffice writer. Sadly, I even prefer wordpad to openoffice writer!

Rated 50/50 by gate1975mlm at Oct 6, 2008

WoW this is the first tiome trying the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 aznd it is a huge improvment over 2.0 as far as speed goes! 3.0 opens way faster! :) Looking forward to the final version!

Rated 50/50 by morrigen at Oct 7, 2008

Hariskar,I went to the sight,and it is just that an RC,in other words not final and might or will change on actual full release to public.

Rated 30/50 by mring at Oct 9, 2008

Great for free, but I've used Office 2007 since release, and the UI is more than just good looks. It makes prolonged use much easier. Another OOo version that'd I'd recommend to kids and grandparents, but not to anyone with real work to get done.

Rated 10/50 by ranasrule at Oct 9, 2008

reminds me of MS Office97 ...except its much slower

Rated 50/50 by ezh at Oct 9, 2008

OOo 3.0 will be officially announced on Monday, 13.10.2008. 3.0 is a big step forward, but I agree, the UI must be redone...

Rated 50/50 by zridling at Oct 9, 2008

OOo site still listing 2.4.1, not 3.0.

Rated 50/50 by roj at Oct 9, 2008

If yo0u're shallow enough to have the fact that it looks like an older version of MS Office bother you, then the improvements will be largely wasted on you. I've waited quite a while for this mature release. Happy now. FIVE stars.

Rated 30/50 by Daddy_Spank at Oct 9, 2008

If you only care about the fact that its free then I guess the fact that this Suite looks like Word 97 doesnt matter.

Rated 40/50 by alexweber15 at Oct 9, 2008

been a while since ive tested this... hows v3 any better? ms office macro support still not working? thanks!

Rated 30/50 by netean at Oct 9, 2008

so glad I didn't download the previous release candidate, all but 3-4 days ago... otherwise I'd have to do it all over again now. really, when will they start including small patch updates, or allowing you to download the components you need and not the rest (i'll never use their database, or presentation offering, please dont' make me download it)

Rated 30/50 by mjm01010101 at Oct 9, 2008

Since I wrote this review, my score has gone downhill. Some initial issues: 1. Isn't removing 2.4 from all programs start menu for default installs. This makes me sad panda. 2. The splash screen has icons that do nothing when you hover over them using RDP... 3. On a few machines, OO doesn't open after running the setup wizard. 4. Update check fails, and doesn't time out. So I'm going to wait until a few more revisions before rolling it out.

Rated 50/50 by aruprc at Oct 9, 2008

Excellent as usual......loading times have greatly improved.

Rated 50/50 by gate1975mlm at Oct 9, 2008

Open Office 3.0 is much better!

Rated 50/50 by yokozuna at Oct 9, 2008

OOo 3.0 Final is already available: http://ftp.stardiv.de/pu...Intel_install_en-US.exe