Do you really need Microsoft’s latest Office 14, the successor of the Office 2007 System? If you have a fast processor and a hardrive that doesn’t mind bloatware… then go ahead. But for me, I’m gunning for the latest version of OpenOffice.org. It’s now available for grabs.

OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 is a 100% free  open source alternative to the Bill Gate’s costly office suite, which has lost the advantage of the ISO standard Open Document Format it had over Microsoft Office since the ISO standardization of Open XML. Now at version 3.0, OpenOffice.org has integrated Microsoft Office System for Windows platforms and Office 2008 for Mac in terms of standard support.  Bottomline: zero compatibility issues when shuffling documents between computers!

“In addition to read and write support for the Microsoft Office binary file formats (.doc; .xls, .ppt, etc.), OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 is now capable of opening files created with Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.). Thus, OpenOffice.org users can interact with users still using Microsoft Office. The various filters for the Microsoft Office file formats also make mixed environments possible, so that some users stay on Microsoft Office while others use OpenOffice.org,” reads a fragment of the product’s description.

OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 boats a plethora of features starting with a tweaked graphical user interface as well as interconnectivity with for Mac OS X and ODF 1.2. You also get  improvements like impacting Charts, the Crop Feature, Spreadsheet Collaboration, Programmability, the Language Selector etc. And this is straight from the devil himself:  Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer indicated that he considered OpenOffice.org superior to what Google had to offer in terms of productivity solutions.

“Competition is a good thing, you hear me say the same thing, and the truth is we’ve had a lot of good competition. We’ve had StarOffice, we’ve had Open Office, we’ve had various – well, if you ask me today, I’m not recommending Open Office, but Open Office is a stronger product than the Google word processor and the Google spreadsheet,” Ballmer stated. “Open Office is free. Open Office has not been – it’s not as powerful as Microsoft Office, but it’s much more powerful than the Google products today,” he added.

I’ve just downloaded it and I tell you… I’m never going back to MS Office again.

Download:
http://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/OpenOffice.org/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe

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