If you're considering paying the bucks for Office 2007, read this Top 10 article before you make the plunge. And put more in the budget if you want at least half of the features Microsoft advertises.
During dinner last night, a friend in the support business detailed his frustration at helping a client navigate through Office 2007. "He said he had trouble printing. How hard is it to print, I thought, then I sat down to help. I couldn't find the *&%$#@#*( print menu. Why in &^%@$ did Microsoft hide the print menu?"
My Ubuntu 7.10 (Gassy Gibbon, er, Gutsy Gibbon) installation I'm testing included OpenOffice 2.3. Biggest surprise to me so far? It opened an Office 2007 DOCX file someone sent. OpenOffice 2.3 doesn't offer that format in thei "Save As" menu, but it opened the file with no problem. Interestingly, and widely reported, is the fact Microsoft Office 2003 can't open a DOCX file without upgrading and adding a special utility.
Before you pay the big bucks for Office 2007, check out OpenOffice 2.3. The money you save will be your own.
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OO.o different
i do believe there is a difference between the OO.o in ubuntu and the one downloaded from OO.o. the one in ubuntu has added features from novell and others. i understand eventually those features well be added to the main line @ OO.o
Ubuntu includes and advanced version of OpenOffice.org
Ubuntu includes the Go-OO version of Open Office.
It does add advanced features that have been build in the community, like partial MS OOXML support, VBA macro support, Calc solver, etc. These features have not been accepted into the main stream build, in part because of the restrictive contributer agreement Sun Microsystems requires and in part, of the slow and bureaucratic process imposed for outside contributions.
Many Linux distributions feel comfortable to use this advanced version.