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Language ‏ : ‎ English
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ September 10, 2012
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Apache
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008XAXAC4

The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite including a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites.
OpenOffice reads and writes in Microsoft Office and iWork productivity suite formats.
Available for Windows and Mac computers.
OpenOffice runs on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows.
Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL open-source protocols, OpenOffice.org allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source.
Reviewer: HGW
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Better than Microsoft Office in several areas
Review: While Open Office is freeware at the present time, it has a strong pedigree. It began life in 1985 in Germany, and became an office suite called StarOffice that was used on computers including Zilog, Amstrad, and Commodore 64. In 1999, Sun Microsystems, a highly respected hardware and software company, acquired StarOffice suite, and in 2000 open-sourced it, making it available as freeware, under the name OpenOffice.org, presumably as a rebuke to Microsoft. Subsequently the project continued with help from Sun employees and volunteers. It continues these days as a project of the non-profit Apache Software Foundation.[1] I rate this product superior to Microsoft Office in several important areas.First, Open Office will run under all the MS Windows versions, 95, 98, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7, and 8, as well as on Mac OS, with several Unix versions, and will presumably run under future versions of Windows, so that the user will not run into the situation of finding that software they have thoroughly mastered is being made obsolescent, and that they are going to have to waste time learning a "new" office suite.Second, Microsoft has the unpleasant practice of changing the user interface with each new version of Office, presumably in an effort to persuade users that a retread with a few new features is "new". Open Office, on the other hand, retains a much more stable interface as it evolves. This means that the time you invest in learning Open Office is not going to be thrown out the window because of planned obsolescence.Third, last but by no means least, Open Office is available free of charge.[2] Above I have listed three areas where I think Apache Open Office is better than Microsoft Office. I am now going to list areas where I think Apache Open Office is comparable to Microsoft Office (i.e. not better, not worse).Reliablity and stability: About the same. I have yet to lose any files.Quality of help files: About the same.Ease of use: If you mastered Microsoft Office, Apache Open Office should be easy to learn. However, newbies to office software might find it more difficult than Microsoft Office.[3] ConsOpen Office offers conversion into native Open Office formats only of Microsoft Office files (including Word and Excel) and does not offer conversion of formats such as Word Perfect, WordStar, Wang, and XYWrite. However there may be competent third party file converters.Presumably for patent and copyright reasons, some menus are a bit convoluted./----------------------Overall, I think Apache Open Office is a strong and well designed office suite.

Reviewer: Janna
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: can't get a word processing app at a better price!
Review: I recently bought a new laptop, and needed word processing. I'm used to working with Word, and so I looked at buying an updated version of that popular app. But when I saw that the prices for the Microsoft program was almost as much as the price of my laptop, I knew I had to find something else. Apache OpenOffice works reasonably well. There are still some things I either can't do with it, but that may just be my own lack of familiarity with the program. I've tried to set it up for spell check in Spanish, and to print page numbers, but without any success. Again, this may just be a factor of it working differently than what I'm used to. Also, though I have been able to open its docs on other computers using Word, I have had the experience of other people not being able to open the docs. In that case, I print it to a pdf and re-send it so that they can read it. But again, at this price, FREE, I'm pretty satisfied.

Reviewer: JDH
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Revised review.
Review: Originally, I had given this product 5 stars. I'm sorry that I have to change that. I am using Win 7. Initially, for a casual user, it performed well. Nothing fancy, just met my needs. After not using it for a while, I went back in to write a quick letter. It was frozen. I could not access previous docs or open a new window to use it. IF this would have not been a free product, I would have had a meltdown. Thank goodness I had nothing of great importance in the files. I just deleted this last night. There was no way (except to install again) that it was going to budge. Back to looking for an affordable, recoverable and reliable word processing program. Had to gong this one. I do not recommend this software as a permanent word processing program. For me it was a bust.

Reviewer: Dave in Texas
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice idea, but not for me.
Review: I was happy to get this free and available from Amazon. My son the programmer has told me about this product for several years. Initially I thought it would work fine for me, but it got to be a hassle. It's very similar to all the Windows Office programs I'm used to. it opened all my old files. (When I bought a new computer I could not find my old Office disk) Documents (Word) was pretty straight forward. However spreadsheets (Excel) were different enough that they were hard to use. The on-line help is really poor and difficult to use. While I applaud the group doing this, I finally broke down and ordered a used Windows 2003 disk used on here. Never done that before, but it worked fine.

Reviewer: Messer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: OpenOffice
Review: OpenOffice, though not as pretty and polished as Microsoft Office, fills the niche of an office suite in open source environments. It is also great for cost saving in situations where Microsoft Office either does not run well or is too expensive to use.I mostly only use the word processor and presentation builder applications from the suite, and I find both of them to be more enjoyable to use than their Microsoft counterparts.OpenOffice can open a variety of file formats, including Microsoft Office files. Sometimes rendering is not exact, but it is generally adequate for office and home use. Likewise, OpenOffice saves to a number of formats, including Microsoft's formats and Adobe PDF. I find the "Export to PDF" feature helpful, as it makes a simple way to portably save things formatted for the page.I was torn on offering four stars or five. On the one hand, it is visibly less mature than Microsoft Office. On the other hand, it's free. OpenOffice is the most complete Open Source office suite presently on Amazon, and you cannot beat it for the price.