OpenOffice 3.2 Released

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."

Comments

Re:Hooray!

[TheKidWho]

Why waste your time trying to help fix the problem when you can use something that already works?

Re:Nothing That New or Innovative...

[BitZtream]

I know this is going to seem like a troll but it isn't, mark it as one and move on anyway since if you have to start a post with 'this isn't a troll', it clearly is.

The problem here is that you didn't buy him OO.org. OO.org is like a hammer for roofing, except the handle is only 5 inchs long, the head weighs about a half an ounce and its made from pot metal, because its designed by a bunch of guys who can't agree on anything, no one wants to address its usability because they'd rather work on its color scheme, but its free ...

Yes, you can use the hammer to put new shingles on a house and save yourself the price of a hammer. Or ... you can buy a hammer from the store that was made for building a house and save yourself a shitload of time rather than dealing with the clunky bearly out of the stone age, free pile of crap you were handed earlier.

Spend less time dealing with charting and more time making OO.org feel like a professional application, not some sluggish, ugly as sin collection of code called an office suite that feels more like a bunch command line scripts with some tk and postscript thrown in as an afterthought.

Your handyman may not care about what his hammer looks like because he doesn't look at it all day long, but he still keeps it clean and properly working.

Your desk jockey on the other hand DOES care what his/her tools look like because they ARE looking at it all day. Your software can't look like shit and get respected. Period. You may not want to admit it, but thats reality. People will pay for a pretty cherry desk with working drawers, even if they can get a crappy beat up metal one for free.

Whats worse, if we continue the OpenOffice is a hammer analogy, OO.org is like a hammer missing the claw used to pull nails. Its only redeeming quality is its price, and that price isn't enough to justify the benefits the expensive alternatives provide.

No this wasn't meant to be a troll, OO.org is just a VERY VERY easy target. I don't like Linux, I prefer FBSD, but the list of reasons that I don't like Linux is pretty short. I can come up with many places I'd use Linux if I had to do that particular task.

OO.org does not have that value. Given the choice of starving for 3 days to buy MS office, or using OO.org for a week and eating like a king for those days, I'll take MS Office just to avoid the pain that its using OO.org.

Any who thinks their gradma or grandpa like OO.org doesn't realize they've been lying to you for years, telling you the like OO.org to boost your ego a little and make you think they care so you keep coming back and fixing their PC is well worth it since they don't use it very often anyway. They secretly just use Google Docs and don't tell you so they don't listen to you rant about Google seeing their data.