OpenOffice.org 3 beta is OUT! Oh Sweet Lord, YES!
Finally, the long-awaited Ooo office suite, the best and most popular open source office suite sponsored by Sun Microsystems, has released an official beta of Openoffice.org.
Image from the softpedia screenshot archive
Version 3 has got a bunch of new features, these are my favourite improvements:
- Full Mac OS X Cocoa support (no need to install the Neooffice port anymore!), which means Mac users finally got an official Openoffice version! GoodbyMicrosoft Office for Mac!
-  OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now able to open files created with Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, file formats).
- Impress, the PowerPoint alternative, supprots multiple screens
- New, fresh icons
And lots more.
Download it you guys, obey the Internetling!
This program does look good. I have used Open Office 2.0 and was not very impressed.
How do you compare this to Microsoft Word 2007?
He did not compare it to Microsoft Word 2007.
Openoffice compared to Microsoft office, you say?
Well, it probably hasn’t got eevrything Office has, but it has a familiar GUI like Office XP (no ribbon, yeah), some advanced functions may be missing or are a bit different when working with. Although for an average user, all teh functions are there. Plus, it looks pretty nice.