Open Office ?

1) Introduction about OpenOffice

What is an Open Office? According to the definition found on wikipedia is that Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. Open Office's default files format is the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice comprises a collection of applications that work together closely to provide the features commonly included in modern office suites. From a technical point of view the applications are actually just different kinds of user interface windows (for different kinds of documents) handled by the one OpenOffice process. This is different from Microsoft Office where for instance Excel and Word are actually separate programs. Many of the components mirror those available in Microsoft Office. The components available include: Writer,Calc,Impress,Base, Draw and Math.Apache OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databasesand more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.

2) Differences between open office and microsoft office

OPEN OFFICE VS MICROSOFT OFFICE

Article	OpenOffice.org	Microsoft Office
Interface	Similar	Similar
Easily to use	Yes	Yes (or No if users are always use the older version like 2003)
Copyright	Free to use	Can try for 30 days. If you want to use you must buy them.
Extension of  file saving	Same as the another (Support ODF extension)	Same as the another
Computer Specification	Medium Performance Computer can use it (Must have Java Runtime Environment to use)	Medium Performance Computer can use it. But Microsoft Office 2007 aren't recommended for low performance computer
Manufacture	Sun Microsystems Inc	Microsoft
About PDF Files	Can convert files to PDF format by itself	Must use program to convert to PDF
Compatible	Can use it in Windows, Linux, Mac(Must use X11)	Can use in Windows, Mac
Files Opening	Can't open files from microsoft office correctly	Can open files correctly
Files size	Native format is small file size	Microsoft Office's files are bigger than OpenOffice