This is a review, not a rant. I have been using Open Office 3.0 Beta for a few days now and I have got to say it is one of the nicest word processors I have seen. I even think that it looks better then Microsoft Office 2007! I am not going to say that it is better or worse in any other way because one is final and proprietary and the other is beta and open source. The beta is actually quite nice though it has crashed on me a few times… especially when I am typing some work out on it and try to save. That may have something to do with operating system , Windows Vista, that I have on this computer. All the time I believe that I will be using Open Office, but in the end I just use Microsoft Office because I am waiting until Open Office 3.0 becomes final. When I tried to install Open Office 3.0 Beta in Ubuntu, I had some dependency problems though everything was there and I had that dependency installed. Though for now Open Office will be my testing word processor and I will be using Microsoft Office or my own word processor, ROTE9 (Ryan Orser’s Text Editor 9 though still in beta, but it as not crashed yet. Yes the only problem of Open Office 3.0 Beta is that it crashes a lot, and when I try to recover the work it just comes up with a blank page.

Overall I really like the interface and the speed of Open Office 3.0 Beta. It also works great when you need something for typing notes, though do not try to save anything as that is when all of the crashes seem to happen on my system.

Ryan Orser