OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Final Available for Download
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Recommended: Click here to check for outdated driversWhile Microsoft is cooking Office 14, the successor of the Office 2007 System, the latest version of OpenOffice.org has become available for download.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.
OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 comes to the table with a range of enhancements from a touched-up graphical user interface to support for Mac OS X and ODF 1.2, to improvements impacting Charts, the Crop Feature, Spreadsheet Collaboration, Programmability, the Language Selector etc. At the end of September, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer indicated that he considered OpenOffice.org superior to what Google had to offer in terms of productivity solutions.
"Competition is a good thing, you hear me say the same thing, and the truth is we've had a lot of good competition. We've had StarOffice, we've had Open Office, we've had various – well, if you ask me today, I'm not recommending Open Office, but Open Office is a stronger product than the Google word processor and the Google spreadsheet," Ballmer stated. "Open Office is free. Open Office has not been – it's not as powerful as Microsoft Office, but it's much more powerful than the Google products today," he added.
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Comments(4)
no track of this on the official site... someone knows why?
you says that openoffice 3.0 is in final relase while sun is testing the rc4... did you
want people use a rc wich may have some bugs so they can think micro$oft is better?...
keznews got no brain, but only m$ sudditance!
http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/10/open-office-3-final/ said:
the final release of
open office 3 has already been distributed to various mirror sites to make sure the
official announcement on monday 13 will not see any complications. users who are eager to
try out the final release can head over to the list of open office mirror sites and pick
one near their location...
all stuff very good
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By arcibald on 10.10.2008 - 10:10