If you're not familiar with OpenOffice, you'll consider the interface either functional and straightforward or old-fashioned and stodgy, depending on your aesthetic inclinations. Little in the overall interface or each individual application has changed. If you've already used OpenOffice 2.0, the beta of version 3 will be very recognisable. Even as a 147.9MB download, though, it's still svelte compared to Microsoft Office. OpenOffice 3.0 beta comes with six applications: the Writer word processor, Calc spreadsheet, Impress presentations program, Base database program, Maths equation editor, and Draw graphics program. These types of problems should come as no surprise the final version of OpenOffice 3.0 isn't due until September, and this is a very early beta. For example, we were unable to create a document and save it without crashing - we had to first create a document in another program, and then open it in OpenOffice at that point it worked fine. We tested the Windows version on a 1.83GHz Core Duo PC with 1GB of memory, and found it to be somewhat buggy.
Keep in mind that OpenOffice 3.0 is in beta and should be used for evaluation purposes only.
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