OpenOffice: More Pros Than Cons
The most obvious pro of OpenOffice.org (the official name for the software) is that it's free.
OpenOffice is an ongoing project developed collaboratively by users and developers around the globe. They make their handiwork available online at no cost to anyone who wants it, including individuals, employers and schools.
Consensus Approval
Users tend to love it. Reviewers across the Internet give OpenOffice thumbs up for being just as good as office suites by Microsoft. They always point out the price is right when you consider that the 2007 version of Microsoft Office for individuals ranges from US$150 to $450.
OpenOffice offers many of the same applications as Microsoft Office, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program and database, rivaling Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. It also includes a drawing program and an equations program.
The software looks and feels like Microsoft Office, and it can read and display most files created in other programs. According to one reviewer, it also does just fine saving documents that can be read by the proprietary programs.
You can download the program from OpenOffice.org or order it on a CD to run on Windows, Linux or Mac operating systems. You can even run it from a thumb drive, meaning you can carry the programs with you and use them on any computer you choose.
There are catches to OpenOffice, depending on how you want to use the programs, but not any related to this being an open source. Like any software, OpenOffice has some things that it does better than others, and some features it lacks altogether.
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