Microsoft Office Alternative OpenOffice Gets New Release

First of all I'd like to say that i am a big fan of open source software, why to pay money when you can get the same thing for free? well ok, maybe not the same thing, but still free.

Everyone will agree me today Microsoft Office is the most popular document and spreadsheet editing program for PCs running on Windows OS, and even for Mac OS users. But with a new release of OpenOffice.org - the open source suite for business applications, the things are looking much better for casual user who is trying to avoid Microsoft dominating his whole PC. It is cross platform, it is free, it has all the stuff you need, compatibility with MS Office 2007. Even more, with OpenOffice you are getting not only a wordprocessor, presentation and spreadsheet program,
but you are getting vector drawing program and relational database. One more major is how OpenOffice handles these multiple program: i think it is way more convenient, because you only need to start a single program and then choose what you want to do at the moment, instead of launching multiple programs like word, excel and powerpoint.

Of course some people might be frustrated by the lack of templates in OpenOffice and yet this suite is great and i hope that with new improvements and releases it will gain more share in the market, thus will have the ability to make this useful open source suite even better.