OpenOffice.org 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook

jason writes "At the OpenOffice.org 2007 conference about a month ago there was a presentation on what to expect in the next major milestone for their Microsoft Office competitor. "The presentation mentions bundling Thunderbird with their Office Suite, and refers to it as an 'Outlook replacement.' This is all assuming that Thunderbird recently losing two of its main developers doesn't affect the decision, because I'm sure OpenOffice wants to ensure that Thunderbird will continue to progress before including it." This probably won't sway large corporations away from using Microsoft Office, but it could make it more intriguing for the smaller businesses that are looking to cut some costs."

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For those who aren't familiar

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Open Office is an office suite application available free of charge for a number of different computer operating systems. It supports the OpenDocument standard for data interchange, which Microsoft has attempted to supplant with the OOXML format. (Do not confuse the Open Document and OOXML formats.)

Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It is mostly used for email.

Re:You gotta be kidding.

[Maxo-Texas]

The moderation has been a bit strange on this one.

I looked into people's posting histories and nothing suspicious tho.

Still.. if I were a huge corporation, it would be worth my while to have a nice group of profiles to mod things up on a site like this. It wouldn't be hard- as a private individual, I maintain a couple id's here.