At last, after days of mixed up release dates and confusion, open source office package OpenOffice 3.0 has hit the road and this time with loads of improvements and features. In a sentence, the free version of Microsoft Office package.

Lots of enhancements like the crop feature and projectability have been made. OpenOffice and its series of releases have been great and a great way to save money too. An excellant spreadsheet program, powerpoint presentation programs and drawing tools make this even more great to use. Documents can be saved in the PDF format as well.

Lots of people are already citing that OpenOffice 3.0 is way greater than what the Google offers. Whats more, OpenOffice also supports the documents of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office 2007. It also supports Linux, MacOSX and Solaris. 

OpenOffice 3.0 can be downloaded from the mirror site listed at Distribution.OpenOffice.