OpenOffice.org for Windows 3.2.0 Fileforum Pick

4.3 out of 5 stars 4.3 (2485 votes)

(February 9, 2010)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Open Source / 338,001 downloads

OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. It establishes the necessary facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer community.

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    Aegis69

    Reviewing 3.2.0 RC4 (Jan 27, 2010)

    3.2 does load faster, thank the gods.

    For those needing an outlook replacement, Thunderbird 3 + Lightning does the trick.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    Floodland

    Reviewing 3.2.0 RC4 (Jan 26, 2010)

    Top rate. It does 90% MS office offer for free, and does not infect your computer with +10mb useless registry entries, useless components and such crap. Small, and free is the way I like it. It only lacks an Outlook replacement, but unless you need to use a Exchange mailbox, that is not an issue.
    I would startup faster, but comparing against $400 suite, well, Open Office is gold!

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    mancubs

    Reviewing 3.2.0 RC4 (Jan 26, 2010)

    to all those on here that knock ooo ,firstley i bought ms off,its crap its over priced and to say that oo is not as good ,ok free to use ,has every thing ,and dose more if you take the time to use it and learn it so i will give it 5 rock on all you guys and girls ,Ooo

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    cool_guy

    Reviewing 3.2.0 RC2 (Jan 14, 2010)

    If you go to their web site: http://www.openoffice.or...beta.html#general_speed

    "OpenOffice.org 3.2 Calc and Writer have both reduced 'cold start' time by 46% since version 3.0 was released just over a year ago, according to tests by our developers (results will vary on different operating systems and hardware)."

    This is actually true and it was the first thing I noticed. These two programs indeed start a lot quicker than previous versions. Although the start-up time is now acceptable, I would still recommend further improvements however it is a very good start so well done OOo! team!

    In relation to the UI, I miss the original StarOffice 5.2 toolbar look. http://linuxbook.orbdesi...h11/images/btlb1116.jpg

    I personally like that look better over the today's one except for the fact that toolbars cannot be docked/un-docked. Back in the late 90s, when StarOffice was not owned by Sun, I preferred it over MS Office.

    OOo team, in the past I've rated you low because of slow start-up speed but this time I am giving you 5 stars because you truly deserve it and I am actually quite happy with what you have done. Keep up the good work! 5 stars from me!

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    b0mmel

    Reviewing 3.2.0 RC2 (Jan 14, 2010)

    I really try to like it and evaluate it every 6 months but OOo got so outpaced by MS Office that it's no longer an option. If you have a couple of equations in a text it still gets dead slow. No SmartArt. Hideous interface. Hideous looking graphs. No noteworthy spellchecker.

    I acknowledge it's free but MS Office H&S is so cheap now that this is now longer an argument. One also has to consider its prospects when changing to its OpenDocument format: OOo now has as little as 20 developers remaining and future support by Oracle is uncertain. MS Office has how many developers? Maybe 500 and support by MS is out of question.

    Unfortunately not recommended.

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