Open Office runs on all sorts of flavors of Window$ and is supplied by those commies at Sun (no wait, aren't those Sun guys somehow in cahoots with M$ and the oil companies to make windfall profits?). This is all so confusing.
I did that because as an I.T. professional I felt I should be familiar with Vista. Now I am sorry. I should have put Vista on an old machine instead and bought Acer with Linux instead of Toshiba with Vista because the *#!#&&$# manufacturer of its wireless adapter and other peripheral suppliers have not developed drivers other than for Vista.
So now I use the notebook primarily as a remote client to my desktop or work in virtual XP machines.