An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0

ahziem writes "With the final release 167 days away and an alpha version available, it's time to look at OpenOffice.org 3.0's new features: view multiple pages in Writer, notes in the margin, Microsoft Office 2007 file format support, Solver in Calc, new visual theme in Calc, native tables in Impress, more columns in Calc, error bars in charts, performance improvements, real native Aqua Mac support, and more."

Comments

Re:Stability

[mpapet]

stop handling menu and dialog font spacing and anti-aliasing

Except the problem with letting the WM handle anti-aliasing is they maintain their own gui toolkit so they minimize dealing with WM bugs and quirks. Sure, it sounds like a big deal to maintain a gui, but the time spent doing that may be shorter than debugging WM issues. Mozilla maintains their own gui for the same reason.

My 2nd hope is for OOo 3 to stop using Java for the wizards. Or for anything really.
Well, now that's just not going to happen considering it's Sun's project.

3rd hope is for OOo 3 to finally make tables creation and editing in Write as easy
While my Wife and I have no issues with tables, maybe it's just not intuitive for you. It happens all the time. Maybe shelling out the dough for an MSOffice license is what you should do rather than complain about something you got for free?