Open Office 2010

The decade-old Open Office was the free and Open Source replication to Microsoft`s Office that has enriched it self in the office productivity suite segment.Originally a proprietary software application that was Open-Sourced  by Sun Micro systems,  Open Office has come a long way ,with the release of its new-improved version 3.2.Today, having crossed 300 million downloads-a third of this community project is among the most successful  stand-alone Open Source product.




Data legacy and incomparability issues, as a majority office softwares are already using proprietary applications, and widespread privacy early growth.Constantly competing with MS-Office,it got better with successive iterations, through it has not quite catch up.The latest version, Office 2010,is due for release and offers browser versions of Word,Excel and PowerPoint,across the PC,mobile phone and browser.


Open Office 3.2  


 The most in-your-face improvements of Open Office 3.2 Writer are the reduced start-up time ( down by 46 percent,it clams) and more features on Calc, its spread sheet programme.It offers improved compatibility with proprietary file formats, including  password-protected files, and increased compliance with Open Document Format (ODF) standards that have now been adopted by several countries. Open Office is available in 26 Indian languages, Even today Microsoft`s Office Suite Offers 12 languages.Open Office offers dictionaries,thesaurus,spelling and grammar check. 




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