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1. If you are an organization of course you can save hundred of thousand or even million of dollar by adapting to Openoffice. Don’t worry about upgrading, it’s still free of charge. Using Ms Office will cost you money, even upgrading from Ms Office 2003 to Ms Office 2007 will cost you money.

2.Ms Office has many features and Openoffice don’t? before you make this sort of statement, for those who never try Openoffice i’ll recommend you to try it, for those who has tried Openoffice 6 years ago, i suggest that you try back the software and for those who had a downgrade version (1.x, and 2.x) i suggest you to upgrade to the latest version (3.x). Then you make the statement ok!

3. Openoffice support old computer with specs as low as Pentium 166 MHz processor with 128 MB of RAM meanwhile Ms office support computer with Pentium 450 MHz with 256 MB of RAM. MS office require windows Xp to run it, Openoffice can be run using windows 98. Openoffice also support for portable application meaning that you can copy the software to your USB and run it from there. This make you possible to bring your software and run it in any other computer without having to install it.

4. Openoffice interface and Ms Office 2003 interface is quite similar. If you are familiar with Ms Office interface, i bet that you can understand Openoffice interface, it is so familiar. If you expert in using Ms Office and you can’t seem to understand Openoffice interface, there are something wrong with you.

5. Openoffice can’t open Ms office file? Sorry to say but you are wrong. Latest Openoffice 3.1 can open the newest Ms Office 2007 file that end with extension like docx, xlsx or pptx. Please upgrade your software to latest version

6. Need to convert your document to PDF format? Openoffice can convert your file as ease as possible. For Ms Office, you need to download the extension first and for those who use non genuine Ms Office product, i think you know the answer.You can’t download until Microsoft validate your software as genuine.

Let see some of the comment that i found from the internet:

“OpenOffice is my company’s official productivity suite. Its cross-platform in a way that MS Office is not. For example, Word for the Mac has many different features and ways of doing things than Word for the PC. But OpenOffice on the Mac is just like OpenOffice for the PC. So it breeds familiarity with the package that is transferable to other operating systems. And we don’t worry much about file types, either. If we have to send a doc to a client, usually that’s in PDF format. Or we save as an MS Office doc if they also need to edit.”

“You hear people getting more and more excited about OpenOffice, because over the years the functionality of it has evolved and increased till it is now almost similar to Microsoft Office except for several advanced functions. If you want to say which one is a better program only based on the functions of the program, then inevitably that would be Microsoft Office, well, until Open Office surpasses Microsoft Office and adds some other advanced functions of its own..”

“In the past ( pre 2.0 days ) I would have agreed with anyone who said that open office was nice for a free application, but not quite ready for daily enterprise use. However I actually like open office 2.0 BETTER than MS Office. I write a ton of large documents most use tables for pretty formatting, and little things like their dynamic toolbar which changes the toolbar automatically based on if you are working inside a table, working in the main document, working with an image, etc”

What is openoffice? as define by wikipedia ” OpenOffice.org (OO.o or OOo), commonly known simply as OpenOffice, is an office application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. It is distributed as free software and written using the GTK. It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others. As of March 2009[update], OpenOffice supports over 80 languages.”

A little bit history on openoffice :

Openoffice a.k.a OOo originally developed for Staroffice application but later Sun Microsystems makes Openoffice opensource that is free in term of its application and source code (a very brief history). for more information on OOo history checkout this link: OOo History

For your information, the latest version of Openoffice software are 3.1 for those who are still using Openoffice version 2.3 & 2.4 we are recommeding you to upgrade to the newest version. cost for upgrade? of course free of charge. Sorry to say but most of the Goverment department event matriculation college still using the downgrade version. Before you are complaining why Openoffice are so annoying, can’t do this or do that, please upgrade your version first and then complaint ok!

Please visit www.openoffice.org to upgrade your OOo software.

Blender? odd name for a 3D animation software right? if you search blender in google, would likely blender.org the official site of blender software would be top on the list and if you want to find or buy a kitchen blender this site (www.blender.org) wouldn’t the right site for you. If you are searching for a free 3D animation software that are cross platform this site is a good place to start.

Here i will summarize all the important thing that you need to know in order to start using blender 3D animation software.

1. www.blender.org : this is the official site for blender 3D animation software. You can get the newest version of blender software from this site. i recommend that this is the first site that you need to visit in order to get any information about the software. little tips here, the more you know about blender, the more you will love the software. if you visit this site please check the feature & gallery, downloads, and e-shop section. you don’t wanna miss it.

2. www.blendernation.com: Good site for any news and information on blender software that been used by all the user around the world. you should check this site.

3.wiki.blender.org: This site is the primary documentation for blender software. you can get manual, tutorial and also support from this site.

4.blenderartist.org: The most popular community site dedicated to the free, open-source 3D animation program Blender. Any question on blender and dont know where to find the answer? don’t forget to check the forum.

5. blenderart.com: This site offer blender magazine which is Bi-Monthly published. The magazine covered Blender 3D, the Open Source 3D Creation Suite with tutorials and articles on other FOSS free opensource software) as well.

6. opencreative blog: Of course don’t forget to check our blog for any news on blender, gimp, openoffice and kompozer software. This is the official site for matriculation, ministry of education Malaysia. we will update it regularly.

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