The open source productivity suite OpenOffice – once developed as a free version of StarOffice – provides free software alternatives to commercial products in the office sector. Main components are a word processor (Writer), an Excel alternative spreadsheet and calculation app (Calc), a Powerpoint alternative app (Impress), Draw (a drawing application similar to Corel Draw), a mathematical formula editor (Math) and Base as a management app for database operations.
The OpenDocument format (ODF) is used as file extension, which is an ISO standard originated with OpenOffice.org. Other standard file formats especially for Microsoft Office with Word and Excel are supported and can be read by the free software suite. Available for Linux, Windows and Mac, it is available for free download for every operating system out there on the globe. It uses the Apache License for distribution. Download and share is higly appreciated.
OpenOffice Download
| For Windows: | Apache OpenOffice | |
| For Mac OS X: | Coming soon | |
| For Linux: | Coming soon | |
| For Android: | Coming soon | |
| For iOS: | Coming soon |
OpenOffice is completely free of use and will be updated regularly.