October 20, 2005
OpenOffice.org 2.0 OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been released. For those unfamiliar with it, it's a FREE office productivity suite, available in Windows and Linux flavors. For word processing and basic spreadsheets, it's a hard offer to refuse. In fact, this review sings its praises, giving it higher marks than MS Office. (I don't believe that any free product is better than MS Office, at this point.) Now, for a little criticism of OpenOffice.org. What a stupid name! Open Office "Dot Org"? Dot Org? A website can be named dot org, not a product. Have you tried to download it? It takes forever to reach an actual download link. It's a free product! Don't you want us to try it and love it? Well, give us a link already! Of course I want the Windows version, give me normal download link. Simple stuff. Windows. Link. Now. A regular EXE file or ZIP file. These people should take a lesson from Mozilla. Mozilla's site assumes you want to download Mozilla and so it serves up a prominently displayed link compatible with your PC's operating system. A download link. One click, and you're downloading Mozilla. How difficult is that? Wake up, OpenOffice DOT ORG.