[mahoanie]

I originally had office 2010 student. Had problems with the computer constantly NOT RESPONDING. A friend eventually removed 2010 and replaced it with 2007. I attempted to download 2010, 60 day trial. It downloaded up to 23% 0f 3 of 4 prerequisites before error message - unable to complete set up. I removed office 2007 from my program and features. Now I have no office program. I am a college student and am at my wits end. I need such a program to complete required assignments for my online classes. PLEASE ADVISE ME.

DESPERATE IN TAMPA

 

[sobeit]

you can use libreoffice or open office. you can save your work as microsoft documents and they will open microsoft documents. and they are free.

Home » LibreOffice
OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

they are both pretty good programs. I personally prefer open office but it looks like libreoffice is going to be the future.

 

[gregorio2]

OOo vs LOo
Switch to LibreOffice is a no brainer.
The newest bug fix of what's left of OpenOffice 3.4 Beta is 2011-03-29.
That's 10 months since anyone posted any work on that project.
Look for yourself:
3.4 Beta - Developer Snapshot - Release Notes

And look at this quote from article at ComputerWorld:
The Document Foundation said its launch has received broad support from other companies with a stake in open-source software: it lists among its supporters Google, Red Hat, and Canonical, which develops the Ubuntu open-source operating system. Canonical said it will ship LibreOffice with future releases of Ubuntu.
Look for yourself:
Update: OpenOffice.org developers move to break ties with Oracle - Computerworld

It is very clear "all" the developers have jumped ship and OpenOffice is
functionally dead.
Switch to LibreOffice is a no brainer.
Apache should do everyone a favor and post links to LibreOffice.org
on OpenOffice.org since they are its official caretaker/undertaker now.

And just checked latest releases as of 29 Jan 2012 and
LibreOffice 3.4.5 Final (2012-01-16),
LibreOffice 3.3.4 Final (2011-08-17),
LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC2 (2012-01-26) are at:
LibreOffice Productivity Suite Download » LibreOffice

 

[sobeit]

OOo vs LOo
Switch to LibreOffice is a no brainer.
The newest bug fix of what's left of OpenOffice 3.4 Beta is 2011-03-29.
That's 10 months since anyone posted any work on that project.
Look for yourself:
3.4 Beta - Developer Snapshot - Release Notes

And look at this quote from article at ComputerWorld:
The Document Foundation said its launch has received broad support from other companies with a stake in open-source software: it lists among its supporters Google, Red Hat, and Canonical, which develops the Ubuntu open-source operating system. Canonical said it will ship LibreOffice with future releases of Ubuntu.
Look for yourself:
Update: OpenOffice.org developers move to break ties with Oracle - Computerworld

It is very clear "all" the developers have jumped ship and OpenOffice is
functionally dead.
Switch to LibreOffice is a no brainer.
Apache should do everyone a favor and post links to LibreOffice.org
on OpenOffice.org since they are its official caretaker/undertaker now.

And just checked latest releases as of 29 Jan 2012 and
LibreOffice 3.4.5 Final (2012-01-16),
LibreOffice 3.3.4 Final (2011-08-17),
LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC2 (2012-01-26) are at:
LibreOffice Productivity Suite Download » LibreOffice

in all fairness openoffice was turned over to the apache software foundation and is currently incubating. hopefully when the incubation period is over it will be what it was before.

imo updates dont mean a thing. as long as it does what I need it to do is all that matters. and in regard to this thread. It will do everything that is needed and asked for.

 

[gregorio2]

OpenOffice vs LibreOffice and now Apache OpenOffice ?

Took a look behind the curtain at Apache Incubating and they have done
some work on the comatose OpenOffice patient and are now in process of
re-branding it Apache OpenOffice. But it is definitely still in the incubator.

Here is link to AOO 3.4 Release Notes:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Release+Notes