Free open-source word processing software gets speed and compatibility update

(OpenOffice.org)

More than 300 million downloads later, OpenOffice.org – the world's leading free personal productivity software -- is updating its office suite to make it faster and more compatible with other office software programs.

More than 300 million downloads later, OpenOffice.org – the world's leading free personal productivity software - is updating its office suite to make it faster and more compatible with other office software programs.

OpenOffice.org version 3.2 provides users with faster start-up times, improved compatibility with open standard (ODF) and proprietary file formats, a Chart module that can be used throughout OpenOffice.org, and many new enhanced features across the board.

"Some people are currently locked in to other personal productivity tools - maybe by corporate IT policy, or by tie-in to other legacy software. For everyone else, we want OpenOffice.org to be the 2010 office software of choice, and 3.2 takes us another step towards that goal" said Florian Effenberger, Marketing Project Lead of OpenOffice.org in a February 11 press release.

OpenOffice.org is a free alternative to Microsoft's Office Suite and Apple's iWork suite. It has around 22 percent of the Office suite market share in countries like Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany according to a February 2010 report by Webmasterpro.de.

A full list of the new features included in the 3.2 update can be viewed here: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.2/

To find out more about OpenOffice.org visit: http://www.openoffice.org/