Wednesday, October 15, 2008

OpenOffice 3.0 is available now!

The 3.0 of OpenOffice.org are available now! If you want to download it, here is the entrance. >>Download<<.
This just-released version provides eight languages support, including Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Swedish. The speed of start-up is much faster than that of the previous versions. This kind of improvement is appreciated greatly. At the same time, OpenOffice 3.0 supports the file format of Microsoft Office 2007.(e.g .docx, pptx, xlsx). Certainly, There are other new features which are also very attractive.(>>click here for the release note<< ). Before 3.0 , there was a version named “PortTable”, it had already show the good performance. Particularly, you can save file directly as “pdf “ format. This feature released you from the trouble of files transformations a lot . However, that version had the same problem of other versions: slower start-up. Anyway, in the competition with Microsoft office, OpenOffice really did a good job and it is free for everyone.

3 comments:

Sumi said...

Hey Thanks,
I did not know about the new open office and had a lot of problem accessing MS Office2007 format.

SG said...

People always complain when there is something new / some innovation from Microsoft comes up.
MS Office 2007 is one of the best Office products with lots of useful features on it, in the market. Any cheap effort (Open Office) of making a duplicate of MS Office won't effect the usefulness of the software in corporate world.

Wen Yue said...

If so, What kind of way should we judge the development of Linix and unix?