Openoffice.org is an open source product that has been come to recognized as a competitor to the widely used Microsoft Word. Apart from being an authoring tool, OpenOffice allows various functions and levels of usage. OpenOffice avails to its users many applications like word processor, spreadsheet program, presentation manager and drawing program. The third or current version is out with the bugs from earlier versions fixed. OpenOffice supports Office 2007 files, better options for commenting or notes, and multi page views.

This OpenOffice.org 3.0 version will be the first to run on Mac OS and is capable of opening MS Office 2007 and 2008 files on the same. While the windows users may find the software satisfactory, Linux users will find it extremely useful.