Open Office 2007 for XP?

[tell-me-more]

I've got a machine with XP but no Office. Can I get Open Office for it for free and if so, is there a version I could get that would equivalent to Microsoft Office 2007?

Thanks in advance.

[realaleman]

Yes, just google Open Office and you can download OpenOffice 3 for free. It's compatible with Word 2007 documents and I just used it yesterday to fill in a very long job application form that had been written on Word2007 and I also use the spreadsheet part of OpenOffice to great effect, though I do much prefer Works to Office for that. My new lappy came with a free 60 day trial of Microsoft Office but I can't see the point of spending money on the full product when OpenOffice is so good.

[beso]

Open Office would do the job for most ordinary users. However it would be inaccurate to describe it as "equivalent to MS Office 2007".

[tell-me-more]

I've not tried MS Office on this machine but Open Office 3.1 was very slow. For me, it's not really comparable to Excel, never mind Excel 2007.

I was hoping it would let me create pivot tables, but apparently not :-(

[tell-me-more]

The machine's got a 1.2GHz processer and 128MB ram by the way.