Since my laptop ate itself earlier this week, I’ve been using my standby machine, a 600Mhz Celeron with 160Mb RAM, running Windows ME. A step back in time!
A while back, out of interest, and having run out of licenced copies of MS Office, I installed the open source Open Office on it, and never really tried it out.
This week, it had its baptism of fire, and I can honestly say I’ve been bowled over. It’s easy to use, full-featured, stable and feels thoroughly professional and pleasant to use. Oh, and the price is right! 
The only real annoyance is not having a flexible word count – something I do use quite frequently. But I’ve found another piece of freeware that does the job, albeit rather clumsily.
It’s not going to elbow Office XP off my laptop, but I’ll be keeping Open Office fully updated on the machine I’m using now, and installing it on any other spare machines we find ourselves with.
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