If a friend or colleague asks you to recommend an office suite, your first thought is likely to be Office for PC or iWork for Mac. But both don't come cheap, which can make it a prohibitive cost for an individual or small business. The need to run Office for compatibility's sake is no longer as compelling as it was either, with a raft of free alternatives all capable of opening even the latest Office document formats with few problems.
Apache Openoffice Reviews
21 Sep 2019 Apache OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (Intel 64-bit) v4.1.7 (Latest stable version) 10 Jan 2018 Apache OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (Intel 64-bit) v4.1.5 09 Oct 2017 Apache OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (Intel 64-bit) v4.1.4. Apache OpenOffice Mac (64 bit) OpenOffice is an easy to use Office Suite that can even be used instead of the famous Microsoft Office. Mac users will also benefit from this program since it is now available for Mac OS X via Apache OpenOffice.org Mac.
Of those free alternatives, the granddaddy is OpenOffice, the first serious rival to Microsoft Office. Despite losing its way of late - leading to rival LibreOffice taking the lead, OpenOffice is now firmly back on track and making waves of its own.
For those uninterested in such rivalry, the key thing to note is that OpenOffice will write and open most Office formats, while its cross-platform nature means you can use it across Windows, Mac and Linux without having to learn a whole new way of doing things. That compares favourably to the Mac and Windows versions of Office, which are very different beasts, making it hard to become experts across both.
OpenOffice ships with a document writer, a spreadsheet, a presentation maker and many other modules. Everything you need to run your business. OpenOffice also saves your documents in the open document format (ODF) meaning that they can be opened within other office suites, even Office itself.
Version 4.1.7 comes with the following changes (see changelog for more):
- Adds support for AdoptOpenJDK as well as Oracle Java
- Fixed possible crash in Freetype code
- Fixed crash in Writer when linking frames on OS/2
- Apache OpenOffice TM in Splash screen has different background
- Fixed possible crash in Freetype code
- Fixed crash in Writer when linking frames on OS/2
- Apache OpenOffice TM in Splash screen has different background
Verdict:
Apache Openoffice For Os/2
It's fallen behind LibreOffice in recent times, but OpenOffice remains a good choice for those looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office.