OpenOffice: it’s really boring!

If OpenOffice was a person on TV, it would be Mike from /The Brady Bunch/. He’s clean-cut; he’s reliable; he’s always there, and always rational; he never says or does anything unexpected. In a person, that’s boring: but in a software suite it’s exactly what you want. OpenOffice has no hidden agendas. They haven’t tweaked the main toolbar so that salespeople can show off the most exciting (but useless) features. They don’t change the file formats every year or two. They don’t hide formatting codes where you can’t find and change them. They don’t even have Easter eggs. OpenOffice just works as advertised. It’s really, really boring. But if you’re more interested in producing documents, spreadsheets or presentations on time than you are in whacky distractions, then OO may be the office package for you.

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