Quality Freebies: OpenOffice 3 Gets Official, Tangos with OSX

For those of you who haven't heard of one of the best freebies floating around the internet today, it's about time we put you in the know. OpenOffice is a Microsoft Office alternative made by Sun Microsystems and supports everything that you'll ever need to do. The biggest difference? it won't cost you a dime.

This newest version 3 now supports OSX's native aqua skin, gives you the ability to open Office 2007 files, and provides PDF creation powers. That's right, *.docx XML-type extensions shall never plague and confuse you ever again! Unfortunately, you can only save in the older *.doc format, but still, the ability to open all types of documents is very much welcome.

OpenOffice 3 runs on all major computing platforms - Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris, OSX.

So, what are you waiting for? Grab the latest version from their official website here.

Comments (2)

I find that these Windows alternatives ( I lump GoogleDocs and Zoho into this group) work well if you need to create a document and print it. I find that it does not always work well when you need to share between applications. For instance, creating a document in OOo and then saving as a doc file. When the doc is opened in Word the formatting is unpredictable. Terrible for the case of sending out resumes!

posted by rhb on October 16th 2008 at 11:27am
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I only use OpenOffice, so when I get a .doc file from Word, I sometimes find a jumbled mess. It would be nice if people just used OpenOffice to get the formatting right!

For resumes, I find .pdf's are best. The viewer is available on most systems and my resume isn't editable.

posted by Vinh on October 16th 2008 at 4:35pm
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