Saturday, April 12, 2008

OpenOffice Revisited

Several years ago I evaluated the possibility of using OpenOffice as a replacement to MS Office for basic users. It fell through due to performance issue with the application, and usability when compared to the MS Office suite.

I just saw an add for OpenOffice, and thought I would give it another go. I'm actually impressed with how far it has come along so we are now evaluating it again at my current employer.

I have found several small issue with the current build 2.4 that should be address in build 3.0 such as the ability to open Office 2007 documents. However we are not using Office 2007 in any substantial way so its not that big of an issue for us.

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