The famous Open Source office suite OpenOffice’s version 2.2 has been released.It boasts that this upgarde to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and database software, the free software package provides a real alternative to Microsoft’s recently-released Office 2007 product - and an easier upgrade path for existing Microsoft Office users.
An advantage of OpenOffice is that it protects users from new vulnerabilities that could lead to an attack to them in Microsoft Office.The option of kerning, which improves text appearance has been switched on by default. Its PDF (Portable Document Format) export function has also been enhanced with the addition of the optional creation of bookmarks feature, and with support for user-definable export of form fields.
Many bugs in the previous version that mostly apply to Calc the spreadsheet application have been fixed. version 2.2 makes use of some of the new cosmetic changes available in Vista, the new file dialogues being an example. Apple Mac users will notice a smaller download and a smaller installed size. The Apple Mac Intel version has many stability improvements, and bug fixes ranging from .ppt export to improved UNO connections. Version 2.2 now requires Mac OS X 10.4.x running X11.
The Calc spreadsheet has received additional enhancements to its support for Microsoft file formats, including improved support for Pivot Tables and some specialised trigonometric functions. Base, the database component, has improved SQL editing functionality as well as a new “Queries within Queries” feature. Compatibility options for some database drivers, such as Oracle ODBC, have been improved. Impress, the presentations component, offers improvements in the handling of hidden slides which has been made more intuitive.
You can get it the traditional way of from P2P. Alternatively, OpenOffice.org Community Distributors supply the software on CD-ROM in many countries and native language translations will be available from their relevant communities.
You can Download it from Here
Or oder a CD-ROM from here and between there are lots of Indian Distributors also. 
Keep a watch on this place for screenshots of the new version soon.
