why is the company called ThinkFree Inc. when the software costs $50? Not complaining, I'm sure it's great. Just an oddity...

I think what the company name means is "Think Free (of Microsoft)"....

pathetic. you need to rename the .dmg.exe to .dmg before mounting. and then you don't find a nice clean .app, or at least a .pkg. no, you need to run an install application i have no idea of. and of course, version 3 is only available on windows for the time being. and anyhow, what file formats does it use? doesn't seem like it uses OpenDocument, as it is should. and what is up with ridiculous claims like "Reads and writes directly to the Microsoft Office file formats so no re-learning is necessary." as if a file format dictated the amount of "re-learning" necessary.

Just my 2 cents, but I found that ThinkFree Office is buggy, non-Maclike, and crashes often for no apparent reason. I was very disappointed in it. Hopefully v3 will make it a actual viable substitute for MS Office, but I'll have to wait 'til the reviews are in. If there's a cheap upgrade path offered, I might give it another chance.

-Ken P

Version 2 was really really bad. Nothing worked as advertised and the overall quality of the suite was very low. They have taken several years between version 2 and version 3. Lets hope those years were spent improving the product and not sitting on hands.

If you want an office suite download NeoOffice/J

The earlier versions of ThinkFree were, as someone said, really really bad: crashed a lot, full of bugs, wouldn't open many Word documents with the correct formatting, and V---E---R---Y S-----------L----------O-------W. I tried using it for a while, but it was little better than AppleWorks with MacLink translations. I ended up buying MS Office when it was on sale (reduced price if you bought a new Mac) just to be able to use the Word and Excel files people send me.