Longtime Open Source Microsoft-Office-Wannabe OpenOffice has released an updated version. Now at 3.0, OpenOffice provides most of the functionality of more expensive Office application suites. It is said that 80% of Microsoft Word users actually only use 20% of the application. If that is the case, then there really is a market out there for very functional competitive products like an OpenOffice.
One of the shortcomings of OpenOffice is the lack of an E-mail and Personal Information Manager (PIM) client such as Microsoft Outlook. It also does not have solid integration with a set of secondary applications, like a Visio or OneNote or InfoPath. But ultimately, the components of OpenOffice are as solid as ever and truly represent an option in the competitive Office application market. We will do a review of OpenOffice 3.0 in the near future.
It seems at this time, OpenOffice is having website issues supposedly from the demand for their newest version.
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