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Open Office 2.0 Beta Candidate Released

Posted by Zonk on from the that-other-office dept.

JPyObjC Dude writes "The OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta candidate has been released. You can find the feature guide that covers the wide array of improvements over the current 1.1 release. There are a bunch of problematic UI quirks in 1.1 that have been fixed in 2.0." Feature categories include increased interoperability with Microsoft Office, Asian Language Features, Developer-Specific Features, and new Internet based features. Commentary and an interview with Colm Smyth available at NewsForge.com.

3 of 415 comments (clear)

  1. Re:One day it'll be as good as MS Office! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    god damn what a gay post

  2. Re:OO.o for OS X? by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 0, Troll
    The trouble is that porting GUI software to OSX is very hard. This is due to Apple/anyone not caring about porting GTK to OSX, to run outside of X.

    Nice troll.

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  3. "Microsoft" Gets Flagged in StarOffice?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just installed the Sun StarOffice beta, and typed something like, "Wow -- this looks nicer than OpenOffice, and it looks like a better competitor to Microsoft Word..."

    The program then underlined the word "Microsoft," as if I'd misspelled something. I right-clicked, and got a drop-down menu suggesting the words, "microvolt," "microcosm," "microdot," etc. -- anything but Microsoft.

    Funny, you say?

    No, it's not -- it's fucking stupid and juvenile.

    This is "Exhibit A" in why so many people, to this day, think the whole Linux/Open Source movement consists of a bunch of childish hacker/anarchists who don't really give a shit about consumer end user wants or needs, as long as they're bashing Microsoft -- and yes, Slashdot all too often falls into this category.

    For the record, I do use Linux, and I have my own issues with Microsoft, but for fuck's sake, guys -- grow up.