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Open Office Vs Microsoft - How The Technology Battle Is Changing Self Publishing And Books
Well, it’s official: Open-source office suite OpenOffice is now a final 3.0 release, which is a first for the self publishing giants. As you may recall, we talked up the beta version back in May, but for anyone who prefers to steer clear of unfinished software, your long wait is over. In case you’ve missed our numerous posts about it, OpenOffice delivers business-caliber word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, and drawing (Visio-style). It’s nearly as feature-rich as Microsoft Office, and given that most users never touch the latter’s more advanced features anyway, it’s more than suitable for small and even medium-sized self publishing businesses.
Open office is more or less the same as Microsoft office except for one major difference, Its free. I know, I couldn’t believe it either. It is not a trial version or a self publishing version that can be upgraded at a later date for a self publishing charge. It is a full office suite programme which is, sorry if I repeat myself again, FREE. It is free to everyone and it is gaining in popularity all of the time. It is available in more than eighty different languages so people around the world have access to it. Before version 3.0, Mac users had to use X11 to run self publishing OpenOffice. Now the suite “runs like any other Aqua application,” according to the developers.
As always, OpenOffice costs zero dollars. Before you spend big bucks on pricey Microsoft Office licenses, you should absolutely positively try the suite for a couple weeks and see if it meets your needs. To get version 3.0 today, you’ll have to hit up one of the mirror sites where it’s been distributed. Otherwise, you can wait till Monday’s “official” release and download it directly from the OpenOffice site. Especially with http://www.publish-book.com and similar excellent self publishing sites. The reason it is free is because many extremely talented people and companies have generously given their time and energy to develop this powerful programme and that includes everything that goes with self publishing it, testing, ironing self publishing out bugs etc, etc Because this many people are involved you will always find that when a problem is discovered it is fixed almost immediately, far quicker than if the programme was only supplied by one company.
One last thing that I would like to clear up is that it is completely legal. I am often asked by people if this is the case because they think that there just has to be a catch. Surely something this good cannot be free. Well. I would just like to put your self publishing mind at rest. It is perfectly legal and you are perfectly safe using it. It has now been around for over 20 years and you will find schools and corporations are using it on a daily basis and are completely satisfied with it.
Ereaders and tablets are one of the hottest electronic devices on the market now. There are 2 main tablets to choose from in the affordable bracket consisting of the Kindle Fire and nook color. Read this comparison review to see which one is best.
With the many types of ovens available in the market, you may feel overwhelmed by the options you have in purchasing one for your home. An electric roaster oven serves multiple functions, thus making it essential in every kitchen. Read along and find out more about the features and benefits of this oven.
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