Reviews of OpenOffice.org for Windows

1. 
   Earwicker

   Reviewing 3.2 Beta (Oct 20, 2009)

   It's still a wee bit slow to start in Windows, but that's the only bad thing I can say about it. With a simple add-on it even edits PDFs now, in addition to creating them. There's no two ways about it, this is awesome. Calc still lags a little way behind Excel, but for 99.99% of purposes there's nothing in it, and Writer is quite the wordprocessor of the moment, with some pretty impressive DTP capabilities.
2. 
   netean

   Reviewing 3.2 Beta (Oct 19, 2009)

   Openoffice, y'know, its' OK. it'll do the job. But in windows, it's got an fugly interface (linux version seems to be nicer somehow)
   it's slow to start, really slow. and stupidly large.
   
   We're on version 3, yet I still can't pick and choose which parts of office I want to download - I'm only EVER going to using the word processing portion, yet I have to download the whole suite. - and then I have to download the whole thing again with up bug fix, and minor update.
   
   It's free, it's good, but it's still way behind in a lot of ways.
   
   All in all I much much prefer Office 07, for day to day word processing, I think abiword is better, at least it's faster and visually nicer to use. Kword (linux) is v. nice too. I'd use openoffice if I couldn't use any of those first. But try it, you might love it.
3. 
   mjm01010101

   Reviewing 3.1.1 (Aug 31, 2009)

   Strangely organized list of fixes here:
   http://development.openo...org/releases/3.1.1.html
   
   Update: 9/8/2009 Crashed on export to PDF. Could not recover the document even though I previously saved it. This is a showstopper for me.
4. 
   Lusono

   Reviewing 3.1.1 (Aug 28, 2009)

   YES! I've been waiting for this release! I've been using OpenOffice.org for years and thanks to this program, I haven't ever had to buy Microsoft Office. I've saved so much money! Just so you know, OpenOffice.org can do most things that Microsoft Office can do and it can read all of the new Office formats (docx, pptx, xlsx) as well as the old ones. This program is a great Microsoft Office replacement, because it can read and make official Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files!
   
   If you want to be able to read Works files as well, there is another version of OpenOffice.org (also free) called Go-oo. (also listed here on Fileforum) I like to use that one myself, because it's the same program with some extra enhancements.
   
   Please remember, you can save money for the people who give us this great free program! When you go to the OpenOffice.org website, you can download this program using BitTorrent. Using BitTorrent to download saves the people at Openoffice.org LOTS of bandwidth, so please use it! Once you have BitTorrent installed, (I use Free Download Manager, it has BitTorrent built-in) go to www.OpenOffice.org and click on "I want to download OpenOffice.org", then in the menu that opens up, click "P2P downloads" on the bottom right. Then choose your download and go!
   
   Aside from that, please don't use any BitTorrent program to download music and movies that you normally have to pay for. That's stealing and it's illegal and it does make things worse for honest customers. BitTorrent has some legal uses which include downloading free things like Linux distributions and OpenOffice.org and some other stuff, but NOT stealing, so please don't do that.
5. 
   Aegis69

   Reviewing 3.1.1 (Aug 27, 2009)

   Wow, guys I have to say that downloading 130megs for a .01 upgrade is getting silly. I love openoffice, its all I use, but maybe wait till you have a serious version upgrade, like 3.1 to 3.2 or something before recompiling the entire app.
   
   Or, implement a patch system. Please.
   
   (edit) jeezuz now I gotta restart my system too? COME ON!

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