OpenOffice.org 2.3 Review

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 9, 2007 @02:41AM from the penguins-look-good-in-text dept.

Peace Frog writes passed us a link to an in-depth review of the newest version of OpenOffice. Instead of just the normal bug fixes, 2.3 has added several new features. Examples include: "A bunch of new and enhanced features like restoring the user-defined movement path in Impress and applying better default print settings in Calc. Check the release notes for complete information from OpenOffice.org. A significantly different chart tool. New extensions provided by Sun and other vendors. You will need to run 2.3 for the extensions to work. Read more about the new extensions on the OpenOffice.org web site." The general impression from the review is that the OO team is doing an excellent job of responding to feedback from previous releases.

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Biggest change by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-09 02:49 · Score: 4, Funny

OO 2.3 is now powered by energy harvested from Cory Doctorow's ego. Current benchmark's indicate a 50% increase in load-time. Sweet!
Re:I've always wondered by Toreo+asesino · 2007-10-09 02:53 · Score: 4, Funny

If you mean getting stuff to fly around any randomly scribbled path in PowerPoint, then it is there.
It's great for adding utterly randomly defined entry paths for everything to spice up those more boring presentations; 10 points extra if you can keep a straight face while doing it while facing the execs.

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