"Some people get sniffy about OpenOffice.org, calling it mickey mouse in comparison to the 'serious' and 'grown-up' Microsoft Office. That may have been a vaguely plausible jibe for version 1, but I've found version 2 to be incredibly fast and powerful--it really does everything I need in an office suite, and it does it well. And yet OpenOffice.org rarely gets the respect it deserves.
"Maybe that's going to change soon--at least on the continent..."
