by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 2 March 2010
WEAVERVILLE, NC – Are you still driving your documents with Microsoft Word? Are you letting your friends get behind the Microsoft “wheel” when they’ve had too much to write? Well, it’s time that you woke up and smelled the coffee, because “friends 
don’t let friends use Microsoft Word.”
So, what should you let your friends use? Let them use what most smart people use these days…OpenOffice.org 3.11.
OpenOffice.org 3.11 or OOo3.11 as it is alternatively written, is a very classic, scalable, and efficient office suite package that is compatible with MS Office 97/2000/2003/2007. The difference between these two office suite packages is the former package is absolutely free while the second office suite of applications can cost you both an arm and a leg.
Great Software:
OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years’ software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software. The result: OpenOffice.org 3 does everything you want your office software to do, the way you want it to.
Easy to Use:
OpenOffice.org 3 is easy to learn, and if you’re already using another office software package, you’ll take to OpenOffice.org 3 straight away. OpenOffice.org 3′s world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice.org 3 is probably available and supported in your own language. And if you already have files from another office package – OpenOffice.org 3 will probably read them with no difficulty.
And, It’s Free:
Best of all, OpenOffice.org 3 can be downloaded and used entirely free of any license fees. OpenOffice.org 3 is released under the LGPL license. This means you may use it for any purpose – domestic, commercial, educational, public administration. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees – anyone you like.
So, the next time you and your friends are writing and your friend wants to use Microsoft Word, take away the “keys” to his/her laptop and let them use your laptop with OpenOffice.org 3.11. Why? Because friends don’t let friends use Microsoft Word.
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