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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who-needs-office-anyway dept.

SNate writes "After a grinding three-year development cycle, the OpenOffice.org team has finally squeezed out a new release. New features include support for the controversial Microsoft OOXML file format, multi-page views in Writer, and PDF import via an extension. Linux Format has an overview of the new release, asking the question: is it really worth the 3.0 label?"

3 of 284 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Forbidden by entgod · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not really the summary at fault. Seems like the whole http://www.openoffice.org/ is giving the same response.

  2. Google Cache of Mirror List by xaoslaad · · Score: 5, Informative

    The main page is ./'ed but it appears the mirrors are still fine. Just use the mirror list in Google Cache.

    http://74.125.113.104/search?q=cache:chsA7FTyP3wJ:distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/+mirrors+openoffice&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

  3. Re:OOXML by Clueless+Nick · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Linux Format article says it can import docx, pptx etc., which means they are Microsoft Office 2007 XML files, and not OOXML, the Published Standard.

    Flawed summary.

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