8 Reasons Why OpenOffice 3.0 Could Be The Tipping Point Application (or not?)

(d) Openoffice is faster than previous versions of the business suite. But it still not fast enough. We've performed a few tests in the office and we've experienced significant sluggishness when opening even simple documents (see picture) or even starting applications themselves. Although one has to bear in mind that the tests were not conducted in a scientific way, it shows to some extent that Openoffice has yet some work to do before getting on par with Microsoft Office 2007 (the tests were carried out on a Core 2 Duo HP PC with 2GB memory).

(e) Openoffice boosts an impressive list of compatible formats including Office 2007 docx and OOXML format. And no longer crashes or freezes when converting very large, memory hungry documents. But we've noticed that there are still minor incompatibilities that bugs Open Office (images not properly aligned in our unscientific tests, margins not respected).

(f) Openoffice has a new smart centre which mimics very loosely, Microsoft own Works suite central dashboard (see picture). Rather than having several executables files running, the user will now only see one soffice.bin executable, a different approach, to say, Google Chrome. Nice but then when one application crashes, it takes away other Open Office windows that are opened.