OpenOffice 2.1
Lots of folks on the FOSS side of things tout OpenOffice (OO) as an alternative to Microsoft Office (M)). The basic argument is that OO, for basic functionality, is every bit as good as MO, but without the cost. They even point out that most documents transfer back and forth between OO and MO, allowing for some degree (YMMV) of interoperability. Here's an example where OO fails to provide anything near the quality of MO.
The majority of my complaints about OO center around Impress, the PowerPoint alternative. Unless the slides are very simplistic in composition Impress does a poor job displaying them, especially if there were first created by PowerPoint. In the following examples I've create a simple example slide that includes an embedded Visio drawing. This is typical of how I, and many others I work with, use Microsoft's Office applications. OO 2.1 was used for this comparison, and OO was installed side-by-side with MO on Windows XP.
Here's the basic example slide.
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