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OpenOffice 2.2 Released
xsspd2004 wrote with a link to a Desktop Linux post about the newest version of OpenOffice.org. Bug fixes and the usual changes can be found in the project's release notes. The developers are using the turn of phrase 'a real alternative to Office 2007', hoping to win over some folks not too thrilled with the commercial software's new look. "Overall, version 2.2 should appear better to users thanks to its support for kerning, a technique that improves the appearance of text written in proportional fonts; kerning is now enabled by default. OpenOffice's PDF (Portable Document Format) export function has also been enhanced with the addition of the optional creation of bookmarks feature, and with support for user-definable export of form fields. A quick look at the release notes also reveals that many minor bugs have been repaired in this new version. Most of these appear to relate to the Calc spreadsheet and Base database programs."
IIRC Open Office is Java based which means much of its performance is relaiant on how well the JVM is doing.
Anyway what is this? Some marketing bot just posting same stuff anytime term *office* occurs? WTF.
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> I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't be thrilled by the
> way Office 2007 looks.
I've seen how it looks. So what? First of all it looks different and that means that all those office-monkeys out there will need retraining since certain function is in other place. Secondly as I've already made an INVESTMENT in previous (2003) version of office so I would rather use the thing I have paid for in my business to the maximum. And the thing wasn't cheap (hell it costed like entire quite modern computer). So I don't get it - actually how does it benefits me to have spend yet another few hundreds of $$ for yet another MS Office version?
> I think it looks fantastic.
And how does it work? It looks different and that is the problem.
> I've been using it since Beta 2 was released
Some MS Junkie - beware.
> and I can't get enough of the little things that Microsoft
> has added to make using their software easier.
> The Equation Editor
Fuck Equation Editor - who uses that anyway? MS *Office* - noticed the office part? When was the last time you used equations in your business activities (like marketing, sales or smth.).
> The Themes
WTF themes? What for?
> The Ribbon menus are brilliant
Are different and trained office monkey will require retraining because it is different that what they now use.
> and they have made it easier for my parents to do common things in Word.
> They always complained that things were 'hidden' in the menus and they
> could never remember "where to go to do something".
This must be a fucking bot. It is just too fucking obvious.
> They no longer ask where things are because the ribbons present
> them in a way that they find very organized.
And it also does breakfasts.
> Also, Office's new file format is a change of pace,
Like anybody cares about the format - yet another.
> but you can still save your files in Office 97-2003 formats just as easily.
So you actually need to do more to make your files be able to open in anybody else MS Office version? Cool. Not.