One of the things that distract me most right now is the desire to contribute to the advertising of an apparently little known aspect of the landscape of the programs' office. " Having been passionate about computers and new technology, more and more embroiled in counseling information and the preparation of solutions free from the constraints of traditional licenses, I can not insist that when the opportunity presents itself to me to be able to install OpenOffice to replace Microsoft Office. This is indeed one of the best and most frequent opportunities to replace proprietary software with Open Source software . But often not as simple as it may seem, sometimes people are wary from using something that does not pay because, as we are accustomed to having to pay for every step we take and everything, it seems strange that you can get something for nothing . But in fact it is not, the problem is that everything is identified with money, and when this fails as a yardstick then they unpacked all means that a user has to evaluate something, tangible or intangible that is. But we must go further, we must understand that even if something does not have a market price does not mean that it has no value or has little or illegal. This is the case of OpenOffice . Org, a project that sees the sponsorship of large corporations such as Novell and Sun Microsystems (never heard of Java?), As well as a huge commitment on the part of an international community of developers and users who offer their free time to assist novice users in forums and chat, or contribute to the work necessary to create and update OpenOffice same. For business needs there are many offers from different companies in Italy which offer telephone support fee, which is one of business models which can be based on the adoption and dissemination of Open Source software in its interpretation of trade.
OpenOffice is licensed under the GPL, which means that you, not only are invited to download and use the program, but it is also permitted, indeed encouraged, to modify it, distribute and install the computers of friends and relatives or anyone else, even in return for money for the performance!
OpenOffice has nothing to envy, for normal use and average the more famous and known set of office programs Microsoft Office. I personally I have never found myself faced with a missing feature in OpenOffice I remembered this in Microsoft Office! The interface is nice and is also compatible with traditional and new formats such as Microsoft Office. Doc. Xls and. Ppt and. Docx,. Xlsx and. Pptx. The latter three are in fact the latest formats with which documents are saved by the new Microsoft Office 2007, an innovation that has confused many users, not being experts and not understanding the differences between the old and new, have the mandate, as used to make the documents saved in the new formats to persons not having the latest version of Microsoft Office could not open them!
For this reason, and for many other reasons, I recommend it to everyone at least the test OpenOffice. You can find the homonymous site www.openoffice.org . Download it, use it and let me know if you can not do without Microsoft Office!
