Good alternative to MS Office: OpenOffice.org 3.1 is out

Sam Dean on the blog below talks about major graphics enhancements. I still did not try this version but I can tell you that the former version already had all the features I needed at the right price=free so any enhancements are just upside!

clipped from ostatic.com OpenOffice Version 3.1 Arrives: Better Graphics, and All Apps Updated by Sam Dean - May. 07, 2009Comments (1) The new version 3.1 of the OpenOffice.org suite of open source productivity applications is now available for download. It appears to be a hot download today, too, because I experienced some wait times getting to the OpenOffice site. For this release, users of OpenOffice were asked to vote for their most desired new features, and the wish list helped dictate goals for version 3.1. There are enhanced on-screen graphics and improvements to all the applications in the suite. Here are details on what's under the hood. clipped from www.openoffice.org OpenOffice.org 3.1 is born The latest and greatest 3.1 release of OpenOffice.org is available on our download site. Read all about the new features in this release! Publish Post