OpenOffice Turns Seven

Posted by Shelley Elmblad Oct 14, 2007

OpenOffice.org, the very powerful and free office software suite, celebrated its seventh birthday on October 13, 2007 with an announcement that Open Office had been downloaded 104 million times. I have been using OpenOffice Calc, Writer and Base in recent months and I am impressed with this free software. In fact, if I had not been using OpenOffice applications myself, I would never believe such awesome functionality and versatility could be offered in free software.

The OpenOffice.org Project is headed up by Sun Microsystems with an international community of volunteers and sponsors working together to create the ever-evolving free office software suite. OpenOffice has features that are similar to mainstream office suite software, and it will save your work in formats that other software will read (such as .doc for Microsoft Word) so compatibility is not an issue. In a recent announcement, IBM said that it was joining the OpenOffice.org community to contribute technology and engineering resources.

The free OpenOffice suite available in over 65 languages and runs on multiple operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS X (X 11), Solaris, and Linux (including PPC Linux).

OpenOffice Calc is a free spreadsheet I recommend in Spreadsheets for Your Budgets. Using a spreadsheet template makes it extra-easy to create a budget in a spreadsheet and you will find free budget templates for OpenOffice Calc at the bottom of Budget Templates for Spreadsheets.

Download free OpenOffice office suite software and get more information on this exceptional free software at OpenOffice.org.

Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org, and many more!