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Friday, December 12, 2008

Is OpenOffice.org Right For You?

Posted by Vincent Ferrari in "Apple Software (OS X)" @ 02:00 PM

http://www.macworld.com/article/137...2/openofc3.html

"OpenOffice.org is a powerful productivity suite-including tools for word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows and more-with one major additional feature: it's free. Whether OpenOffice 3-the first version to run natively on OS X and Intel-based Macs-is right for you essentially comes down to this decision: can you live without the latest features in Microsoft Office 2008? Most of the tools you need for productivity are here, minus an e-mail client. There's Writer, a powerful word processor; Calc for spreadsheets; Impress for slideshows; Draw for basic drawing and graphics; and Base to serve as-you guessed it-a database."

I've tried Open Office in the past and never really liked it. Neo Office was closer to what I expected as far as being a Mac App, but that was before OO.org decided to go with a native Mac UI. Brandon seems to like Open Office, but calls it an 80-20 product; it has enough oomph for 80 percent of the people who need an office suite. And, unlike Microsoft's watered-down "don't compete with the Windows version or else" version of Office, it's 100% free. Maybe it's time I gave it another look...


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