Open office , the freeware and open source office software utility has just been updated to version 3.2. Being one of the best alternatives to Microsoft’s office software, open office sure does rise the expectations every single time.

The newer version , a small update to the previous major version , 3 of open office, features a faster speed and also better support for Microsoft’s office files . It also features some new features like encryption support for documents in Microsoft office format .

It also has some improvements made to its visual appearance, which has nowhere close to Microsoft office’s.

It has a noticeable improvement in performance over the previous versions but still lacks windows 7 specific features like aero peek and some like jump lists which would be very handy to users.