OpenOffice.org 3 Is Near
Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News
May8th2008
Do you really need an introduction for OpenOffice.org? Come on, please spare me of this! Think about Microsoft Office, and then make it free, and there you have it! If you're not using all those advanced features included in Microsoft Office, probably you won't even feel the difference, and today it's my pleasure to announce that OpenOffice.org 3 Beta has just become available!
Are you sure you want to know about the features included in this version? Well, first of all, you should visit the official OpenOffice.org features page, but since that list is huge, let me just quote a few interesting things: Windows Vista and PDF file format support, calendar and email clients (Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning), Wiki publisher extension, new fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control in the status bar, support for spreadsheet collaboration through workbook sharing, and many others.
Apart from supporting PDF files, as I mentioned above, OpenOffice.org 3 Beta is also able to open files created with MS-Office 2007 or MS-Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.), as an addition to read and write support for the MS-Office binary file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc.).
If you want to download OpenOffice.org 3 Beta, you can choose one of the US English versions available already for MS-Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and the OpenSolaris platforms.
Oh, I was just about to forget it... my guess is that OpenOffice.org 3 will arrive before the end of the year, maybe even by the summer's end, if we get extremely lucky. What do you think?
Are you sure you want to know about the features included in this version? Well, first of all, you should visit the official OpenOffice.org features page, but since that list is huge, let me just quote a few interesting things: Windows Vista and PDF file format support, calendar and email clients (Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning), Wiki publisher extension, new fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control in the status bar, support for spreadsheet collaboration through workbook sharing, and many others.
Apart from supporting PDF files, as I mentioned above, OpenOffice.org 3 Beta is also able to open files created with MS-Office 2007 or MS-Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.), as an addition to read and write support for the MS-Office binary file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc.).
If you want to download OpenOffice.org 3 Beta, you can choose one of the US English versions available already for MS-Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and the OpenSolaris platforms.
Oh, I was just about to forget it... my guess is that OpenOffice.org 3 will arrive before the end of the year, maybe even by the summer's end, if we get extremely lucky. What do you think?
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3 Comments on OpenOffice.org 3 Is Near
On 05/10/2008 at 3:02 am Jericho said:
I'm also eagerly awaiting the release of OOo 3.0 the full version. I already have version 2.4, great for making PDF files. Hope that version 3.0 will be out this year, say on the 3rd quarter of 2008???
On 05/10/2008 at 10:49 am KodrutZ said:
3rd quarter sounds good to me! Anyone else?
On 05/10/2008 at 7:36 pm Ryan said:
I'm looking forward to MS Office 2007 file format compatibility since my employer switched to it, but I use OpenOffice on my Solaris box.
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