The OpenOffice.org Marketing Project produces daily statistics for the number of people downloading the software from our central download site. You can always see the latest version here – and an explanation of why this is a big underestimate of the number of people adopting OpenOffice.org here.

Today’s graph (saved on this blog – click on the thumbnail for a bigger version) shows a couple of interesting ‘spikes’. On 11th February we announced OpenOffice.org 3.2, and the downloads jumped as a result. This publicity is aimed at the general media and people who haven’t yet discovered OpenOffice.org.

On 26th February we switched on the online update notification for a number of language groups. This tells existing users directly that OpenOffice.org 3.2 is available. The result has been a much bigger and more sustained increase in downloads. So, well done developers – the new features added in this release are attracting old and new users alike.

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