If you’re not using OpenOffice 3 yet, you should definitely do so! It works great, opens MS Office docx files with ease, and is a winner on GNU/Linux, Macintosh and Windows platforms!

Benjamin Horst (SolidOffice) shares the following information on his blog about the popularity of OpenOffice v3:

“From the official announcement on Monday 13th October at 09:00 UTC, to midnight on Sunday 20th October, OpenOffice.org 3.0 recorded an astonishing three million downloads via the Bouncer. That’s:

• 221,230 GNU/Linux users (who might be considered obvious users of the world’s leading open-source office suite)
• an impressive 320,622 Mac OS X users (enjoying OpenOffice.org with a Mac “look and feel” for the first time), and
• a staggering 2,449,863 Microsoft Windows users.”

Pretty incredible numbers! The question is, how come we persist in paying for MS Office in schools at a cost of approximately $36 – $80 per machine when we could get OpenOffice at no cost? Fear of change or force of habit?

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