With the old adage "If it seems to good to be true, it probably is." Well, with OpenOffice that is not the case. I myself have used it for about three years. Matter of fact, I use the Oxygen OpenOffice version. And I am very happy with it. For years Microsoft has been the bull in the office suite business. They have been strong-arming businesses for a long time. For example, Let say a company has 100 computers with Microsoft Office on them that company has to pay them an annual volume license for all of the software on those computers. With the price of Microsoft Office at $399 per copy, thats $39,900, each year! And that is not including the cost of the Operating systems. That sum of $39,900 probably could hire a couple of part-timers to come in an install OpenOffice.