OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
I know you’re not silly enough to pay hundreds of dollars for something as basic as Microsoft Office, when there is a free office suite available which is actually better. Go ahead and download the latest version of OpenOffice.org which was recently released.
Hint: After installation, open up any application — such as Writer, the replacement for MS Word — and go to Tools | Options. You’ll see the list of options and the first category “OpenOffice.org” is already expanded. Select “Java” (the last item). You’ll see a checkbox open is checked for “Use Java runtime environment.” Uncheck that. Your office suite will now load and run much faster. (A few relatively obscure features are temporarily disabled by doing this, but odds are 99% of you will never miss them.)
February 20th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
[…] 2. Customers want computers to come with OpenOffice.org pre-installed instead of the expensive Microsoft Office suite. As mentioned in 2005, if you haven’t tried OpenOffice in your place of business or at home, then I’d encourage you to give it a whirl. Don’t worry, it opens MS Office documents from your colleagues and you can even create MS Office documents, if you want. […]