Three million downloads for OpenOffice

After hitting version 3 — and adding native support for OS X to boot — OpenOffice has been downloaded more than three million times. That’s a phenomenal number that shows a real hunger out there for a Microsoft Office alternative. We have a copy sitting in the Applications folder here at thriftmac headquarters, but haven’t had a chance to use it much. One little surprise is that we can now open the PowerPoint attachments that occasionally come by e-mail.

Meall Dubh has a chart showing the download figures, including a breakdown by platform. Not surprisingly, most downloads are for Windows, but Mac and Linux hold their own.

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 in Open-source