Office 2007 or OpenOffice.org
Yesterday, I went to Mediamarkt for window shopping. And I was interested with the newly released Windows Vista and Office 2007. After looking at the prices, both cost a lot of money. Windows Vista Home Basic OEM will cost you 99 Euro and Office 2007 Home and Student Edition about 150 Euro. I cannot afford that and I am already satisfied with what Windows XP can give. Now, should I buy Office 2007 because I don’t have any original copy of Office and I just formatted my computer.
If Office 2007 were only 10 Euro, I will definitely buy it. Unfortunately, it is not and it will never be so. As a solution, I downloaded OpenOffice.org 2.1. It took not much time as the file is only about 90MB. After installed it, I find that OpenOffice.org is not a bad solution. You can open, edit, save all MS Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
OpenOffice.org comes with word processor (Writer), spreadsheet manager (Calc), presentation manager (Impress), database module (Base), drawing tool (Draw), and math equation editor (Math) . And the best part it is much much cheaper than Office 2007. It is free actually.
OpenOffice.org performs not bad as a competitor to MS Office. Although you can see more functions on MS Office and lots of bug in OpenOffice.org, but they are all what you paid for. If you want stable and rich with functions software, spend some money and you will get it. But for me, just to write a normal report and make a simple presentation, OpenOffice.org is more than enough. By the way you can pay a visit to OpenOffice.org website.
P.S: There are also some efforts to localize OpenOffice.org to Malay language, but I think that the status of the project is inactive. You can check it ms.OpenOffice.org.
openoffice rulez man! But I’m not sure if it supports somethin called ‘.pptx file’ formats
Anyhow, join me! Support opensource and freeware!! =P
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haha! lingghezhi
u better join me la, i use pirated office 2007 eheh
say yes! to pirated windows product.. lol
I prefer use Microsoft Word than Open Office.org .
There is something happen to me last semester, I was printed my assignment at CC which is using OpenOffice.org as their main software. The problem occur when my assignment corrupted (i’m using Microsoft word).. the page’s number desisted, the paragraph’s alignment was corrupted too…
erm..
You are really lucky, if you found bugs in OpenOffice.org in only a few days of use.
If you are looking for some help, please stop by at the Plan-B for OpenOffice.org
Im going to try OpenOffice..Office 2007 load very slow in my computer..
ikoko, you need to get a new printer.
dont use pirated software. it is not good for your health.
i have use openoffice before and it is not very diffucult to master it..if we compared office 2007 open office has less space..
lol….freeware rox!
huhu
yes, anything free rocks!!!