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OpenOffice.org is an office suite application available for a number of different computer operating systems. It supports the OpenDocument standard for data interchange as its default file formats, as well as Microsoft Office '97-2003 formats, among many others.OpenOffice.org is based on StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released in July 2000 with the aim of reducing the dominant market share of Microsoft Office by providing a free, open and high-quality alternative. OpenOffice.org is free software, available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).The project and software are informally referred to as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by another party, requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name.


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  1. By rpgonda on February 29th 2008 at 03:50 PM

    Slow but Stable

    Good free alternative but still a far cry from MS slick interfaces and usability. Try StarOffice - many like it better.


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  2. By an anonymous user on February 29th 2008 at 03:52 PM

    PCMags review 4/5

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1851001,00.asp


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  3. By nannu on March 3rd 2008 at 10:07 PM

    Keeps getting better

    I've been using this over the last 12 months - I'd say its 70% of the way there for my word processing needs. Word docs that contain graphics and tables sometimes show up a little screwy but they work 80-90% of the time...


    I was beginning to like this but it seems like my loyalties are shifting to Google Docs of late :)


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  4. By an anonymous user on March 5th 2008 at 09:14 AM

    Stable, functional, and cross platform

    OOo Write is great. It may not be as pretty as MS Word, but it's far more stable and logical to use. It also supports every file format you can think of and doesn't noticeably slow down with large documents.


    OOo Calc is not quite as good as MS Excel, but Excel has always been the technological leader in the MS Office suite. Even so, the price is more attractive and it's still usable.


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  5. By an anonymous user on April 4th 2008 at 08:00 PM

    Good but Microsoft .docx poses a problem

    Microsoft has done it again - the new 2007 .docx format isn't supported by OOO which kinda blows... Outside of that this is great, and surely they will be providing .docx support...


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