Reviews of OpenOffice.org for Windows

1. 
   cdhanks

   Reviewing 3.4.0 Beta 1 (Jul 14, 2011)

   " I don't know what Word is like..." Why in the world would someone write a review comparing Openoffice with Word and HE DOESN'T KNOW WORD! Stupidity!
2. 
   Wolf Sullivan

   Reviewing 3.4.0 Beta 1 (Jul 14, 2011)

   The basic problem with openoffice is that it is an imitation of Microsoft Word. Imitations are always inferior. I don't know what Word is like, but it can't be worse than openoffice.
   
   I only use openoffice Writer, and have no idea about the performance of the other features. Openoffice Writer is incompatible with MS Word, so why did they imitate it? Writer is crap! Plain and simple. I hate it, but I started a book with it and cannot transfer it to a superior format. NOBODY supports the openoffice format, which is incompatible with every format except perhaps PDF, which is very unfashionable today.
   
   The book I am working on is a picture biography with about 100 photographs. It is almost impossible to work with. Every 10 minutes openoffice "saves" what I am working on. This process takes 10 minutes and freezes up my computer so I just have to sit and wait and wait and wait...
   
   This morning I myself "Saved to" what I was working on. After 10 minutes it was finished, so I attempted to close the document. NO! Openoffice prompted me that I had "unsaved changes" (complete bulls***) and I had to wait another 10 ****ing minutes for it to "save" the document again.
   
   Openoffice Writer is s***! Nobody supports its format, and it does not convert to other formats properly, with the possible exception of PDF. Perhaps it is suitable for office workers, but it is definitely something for professional writers to avoid. It's not a matter of you get what you pay for, because openoffice Writer constantly torments and punishes me when I try to use it. Over a dozen times openoffice Writer has crashed, and I had to "recover" it. Usually it is successful, but twice it failed to recover my book!
3. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 3.4.0 Beta 1 (Apr 12, 2011)

   Love how for a dev it wants to install the older java re22 while I've already got the 24 version.
   Libre looks exactly the same and seems to have a smarter startup than oo ever did and undoubtably is english based unlike that pix above.
4. 
   Hallway

   Reviewing 3.3.0 (Feb 20, 2011)

   Even simple things like sorting linked cells doesn't work.
   This is not a serious product, and as been said, you better pay for something than using this slow bugfest for keeping your bills and agenda trustworthy.
5. 
   methuselah

   Reviewing 3.3.0 (Jan 26, 2011)

   Installed 3.3 of OpenOffice and 3.3 of LibreOffice today. I haven't had much time to do in depth testing, but both worked well for me on a document with some unusual formatting. Neither says release candidate. I downloaded them from the respective organizations' sites.

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