OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Final Available for Download
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While Microsoft is cooking Office 14, the successor of the Office 2007 System, the latest version of OpenOffice.org has become available for download.
OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 is a free and open source alternative to the Redmond giant's productivity suite, which has lost the advantage of the ISO standard Open Document Format it had over Microsoft Office since the ISO standardization of Open XML. With version 3.0, OpenOffice.org has embraced Microsoft Office, namely the Office 2007 System for Windows platforms and Office 2008 for Mac, in terms of standard support.
"In addition to read and write support for the Microsoft Office binary file formats (.doc; .xls, .ppt, etc.), OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 is now capable of opening files created with Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.). Thus, OpenOffice.org users can interact with users still using Microsoft Office. The various filters for the Microsoft Office file formats also make mixed environments possible, so that some users stay on Microsoft Office while others use OpenOffice.org," reads a fragment of the product's description.
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