Wednesday, July 22, 2009

OpenOffice 3 - The Free Alternative to MS-Office


Have you heard of OpenOffice 3? OpenOffice 3 is a software suite comparable to Microsoft's Office. It has evolved tremendously during the past few years to where it can easily keep up with commercial software packages. Below are three compelling reasons why you should try it for yourself:

Great Software
OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years' software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software. The result: OpenOffice.org 3 does everything you want your office software to do, the way you want it to. Oh, and a nice side feature... OpenOffice.org 3 let's you save your document as a .pdf file without having to purchase an additional extension. Mac and Linux users don't worry, OpenOffice.org 3 comes in many flavors: Windows, Linux RPM, Linux DEB, Linux 64 RPM, Linux 64 DEB, Linux IA64 RPM, Solaris x86, Solaris SPARC, Mac OSX Intel and Mac OSX PPC.

Easy to use
OpenOffice.org 3 is easy to learn, and if you're already using another office software package, you'll take to OpenOffice.org 3 straight away. The world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice.org 3 is probably available and supported in your own language. And if you already have files from another office package - OpenOffice.org 3 will probably read them with no difficulty.

...and it's free!
Best of all, OpenOffice.org 3 can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. OpenOffice.org 3 is released under the LGPL licence. This means you may use it for any purpose - domestic, commercial, educational, public administration. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees - anyone you like.

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