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OpenOffice 3.2 Released

Posted by timothy on from the compatability-can-opener dept.

harmonise writes "Version 3.2 of the OpenOffice.org office suite is now available. This marks the tenth anniversary year of the office suite, with over three hundred million downloads recorded in total. The new features include faster start up times; improved compatibility with open standard (ODF) and proprietary file formats; improvements to all components, particularly the Calc spreadsheet, with over a dozen new or enhanced features; and the Chart module (usable throughout OpenOffice.org) has had a usability makeover as well as offering new chart types."

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  1. Re:Nothing That New or Innovative... by doti · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A minor (3.x) release is not meant to be innovative. That's for a major release (4.0).

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  2. Re:Nothing That New or Innovative... by hey! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Once I bought my father in law a really, really nice hammer. There wasn't made of titanium or anything like that; it didn't have any kind of electronic controls or clever mechanical gizmos to help you swing it straight. It wasn't innovative. It was just a really, really well made hammer.

    He was pleased with it, even though the hammer he already owned was in approximate terms very similar to the one I gave him. In precise terms it wasn't anywhere near as nice.

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  3. Just Faster??? I wish I was just Richer!!! by viraltus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Word processors cannot be improving in terms of features forever and, anyway, people only use a small percentage of those, so I think "just" faster is "just" right.

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