OpenOffice.org 3.0 Marks its One Hundred Millionth Download

by Lisa Hoover - Oct. 29, 2009Comments (0)

Was it you? Someone out there was the one hundred millionth person to download the popular open source word processing suite OpenOffice.org 3.0 yesterday, just in time for a celebration at the community's annual conference in Orvieto, Italy next week.

The milestone took just over one year to achieve once OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released October 13, 2008. The project followed up with three subsequent point releases and version 3.2 is scheduled to appear in December.

"Here in Italy we have seen 8 million downloads of the Italian version in the twelve months to October 2009, against less than 7 million new PCs sold in the same period. This proves our market share in the segment of personal productivity office suites is growing strongly and steadily. Users are asking for a personal productivity suite, and we are giving them exactly what they want - without trying to force them to use other products they don't need," said Italo Vignoli, spokesman for the conference organizing team.

If you've never tried the OpenOffice.org app suite before, you can download here and see what all the buzz is about. If you already use it, be sure to check out Sam's post about how to run the apps from anywhere and my round up of productivity-boosting extensions.