OpenOffice.org

In summary, MS office is 10 times faster and users 10 times less memory. If these numbers make you angry, good! Go tell the Open Office developers to improve their crappy product!

its only going to get better. I dont care, just anything to get away from ms

@redflux

It’s 100% free. MS Office is not. I hope that Office, with the money it makes from its product, will make it quicker than something you can go and download legally right now.

The ZDNET review is wildly inaccurate in it’s performance evaluation, so much so I wonder if the reviewer got a freebie or even a “brown envelope” from Microsoft.

But even if OOo was say twice as slow as MSO , I would still use OOo because it is reliable and easy to use. Have you ever tried to use lists in Word? Or write a document longer than 10 pages? Or use it’s outline numbering feature? How about trying to reset formatting to the style’s default?

Oh, and I almost forgot – OOo is free, but even if it cost as much as Microsoft Office, it would still be more valuable.

Great stuff. Most people compare it with MS Office, and say it doesn’t have all the features MS Office has. Hey, it is FREE . What else could you expect?

Having said that, it is still worth pointing out that it DOES have the features the majority of us would need. At least I never turned back to MS Office, though it is still installed in my computer.

P.S. The gap seems to be getting smaller and smaller. especially with the release of Office 2007, the worst version of Office I ever seen.

@Best Hunter

True say. The new MS 07 ptx file is not even compatible with the older versions and it's creating excess conflict with presentations which is really annoying to think that your powerpoint presentations don't work on other computers because of the lack of updates on older versions.