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OpenOffice 3, cracks beginning to show

Monday January 19, 2009
Written by Staff writers
Tags: OpenOffice | 3
Not pretty, but a technically competent and comprehensive upgrade to the best free office suite around.
This article appeared in the February, 2009 issue of PC Authority.
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geller
Jan 20, 2009 11:48 AM
 I love OpenOffice. it's quick, does the job. But I agree about the lack of polish - OpenOffice still struggles with basic job like table formatting, which seems like a small thing, but means that I can't use this for any serious work. I'd be interested to find out more about how the team prioritise features and big fixes for each release - it seems so many good open source projects miss out on widespread appeal because they can't see the forest for the trees.


Comment made about the PC Authority article:
OpenOffice 3, cracks beginning to show?
Not pretty, but a technically competent and comprehensive upgrade to the best free office suite around.

What do you think? Join the discussion.
Dascooby
Jan 22, 2009 2:44 PM
geller wrote:
I love OpenOffice. it's quick, does the job. But I agree about the lack of polish - OpenOffice still struggles with basic job like table formatting, which seems like a small thing, but means that I can't use this for any serious work. I'd be interested to find out more about how the team prioritise features and big fixes for each release - it seems so many good open source projects miss out on widespread appeal because they can't see the forest for the trees.


Comment made about the PC Authority article:
OpenOffice 3, cracks beginning to show?
Not pretty, but a technically competent and comprehensive upgrade to the best free office suite around.

What do you think? Join the discussion.


You can't complain about free stuff.
.:Cyb3rGlitch:.
Jan 24, 2009 2:02 PM
Dascooby wrote:

You can't complain about free stuff.


It's not complaining, its feedback.
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