The OpenOffice.org mission statement: to create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format.

If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice 3.0.1. However, as you become used to OpenOffice 3.0.1, you'll start to appreciate the extras that make your life easier. You can of course continue to use your old Microsoft Office files without any problems - and if you need to exchange files with people still using Microsoft Office, that's no problem either.

The set up file that you will download is 142 Megs, so if you are using a Dial-up connection it will take some time to download this file.