OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1 Released

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 15, 2003 @12:07AM from the everybody-needs-a-spreadsheet-sometimes dept.

Heartz writes "OpenOffice has released OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1. Get details here. Neat features include built in PDF and Flash export, better MS Office document filters and more!"

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This is really great by PhysicsGenius · 2003-07-15 00:15 · Score: 1, Troll

Projects like OpenOffice, Gimp and Mozilla keep making Linux more and more competitive with Windows on the desktop. And export to Flash--wow, I never even realized that was something people needed, but now that I've read about it I wonder how I'm living without it. I wouldn't be surprised a bit if Bill Gates was browsing the OO site right now, noshing his teeth in anger and frustration and we just keep coming, like some non-giving-up-programmer guys.
OTOH, maybe he's just laughing at us. MS Office came out in, what, 1994? Here is it almost 10 years later and we're just barely getting that same functionality. Instead of trying to play catchup from so long ago, I can't help but wonder if Linux should be doing something new. I, for one, could do with having my ping times halved.
1. Re:This is really great by Dr.+Evil · 2003-07-15 00:32 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  Linux on the desktop still barely has the functionality of Windows 3.1. Win3.1 still has a more tightly integrated clipboard, a good printing system, excellent screen fonts, no crazy sound managers, etc etc etc.
  The Windows product is not an OS, it is an API. 'Linux' as a desktop OS still doesn't have a 1.0 API. And who would target or invest in a moving platform?
  The fact that MS Office on Win3.1 worked well on a 386 with 8MB of RAM should cause people to pause for thought.
Re:Missing features still... by PhysicsExpert · 2003-07-15 00:22 · Score: 0, Troll

here in the lab we adopted open office about a year ago as Microsoft did not give a comprehensive equation editor in which we could create our theorums. So far our experiences have been mixed, major findings are:

File formats are causing a problem. We are unable to send people Open office documents as they can only support MS files. We thus always convert to HTML but valuable information can get lost in the process.

The spreadsheet is good and has proved invaluable when used for nth level modelling. There is no option for a r squared analysis in the statistics package.

The word processor is good, although somewhere it is set to autoreplace the word lepton with leprechaun which is proving most annoying as I write my paper on particle physics.

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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
Re:That is the problem... by Stinky+Glen20 · 2003-07-15 00:41 · Score: 3, Troll

Why can't I moderate :( I agree with the parent poster 100%.

There's a certain arrogance (moral and technical) in the Open Source communitity that means MS will be around for some time to come just yet.

Yes, things like "My Documents" may be stupid to *you*, but my mum knows where to find everything.

I just installed Mandrake 9.1 to play around with. Shutdown the PC? Sure, go to a Terminal session and type shutdown -now.

Mum, stick with windows. I don't need the support calls :)
Re:xooo by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-15 00:45 · Score: 0, Troll

um, how can a first post be modded "redundant"?

It's a workaround due to the fact that, currently, there is no mod "-1 Gay."

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