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When it comes to productivity software, it's hard to cover all the bases better than Microsoft's Office suite. It handles writing letters, tracking numbers in spreadsheets, making presentations, and even creating simple databases for archiving large amounts of data. It's the worldwide standard -- but it isn't cheap. A full copy with all the bells and whistles can set you back nearly $700 (unless you're a student, in which case hellooooo discount), a pretty big ask when the competition does all that too and does it for free. OpenOffice.org is that competition, and a new release, 3.0, is set to release today.OpenOffice.org includes five separate applications for handling written documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, and databases. The new release provides some usability enhancements for all the tools, adds some support for more languages, fixes a slew of bugs, and, perhaps most importantly, adds the ability to read in files produced by Microsoft's latest Office: 2007. That means this free online software sets up nicely against the decidedly not-so-free alternative, giving those who lack the funds, or who are just looking for something different, a legal and comprehensive alternative. Hey, even the launch party for the release is free and open to anyone -- anyone who happens to be in Paris on Monday night, that is. [From: Yahoo!]
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Subscribe to commentsJamesOct 16th 2008 10:42PM
Sure does! This is THE best office suite I have ever used. It is much better than Microsoft Office because it can save in over 15 different formats, and it's free! Thats better than payin g the Microsoft price.
dudley harinsNov 14th 2008 1:19PM
It seems Yahoo does not support firefox; my feeling is that I don't need Yahoo. The free internet is very important and out wieghs convience. I tried to down load adobe and was again told that it doesn't support this web browier; thanks but no thanks I will support Goggle.