In long-awaited anticipation the free competitor to Microsoft’s Office Suite, OpenOffice.org v3.0.0 Final will be officially released sometime today. OOo v3.0.0 was already available for download on some of the mirrors since late last night. I assume given the time-zone differences the official release details will be shortly forthcoming. Their site is currently down so it’s probably a safe bet that they’re currently updating as I write this article seeing as when I checked 2 hours ago it was working fine and contained no details regarding the official release.
I’ve long maintained that OOo, while not exactly a poor comparison to the very mature and comprehensive suite that is MS Office, it is not the brilliant masterpiece that supercedes MS Office that so many people claim it to be. However for a free office suite it is definitely not lacking in features or functionality, so it should be interesting to see what v3 Final brings to the table and see how much closer it comes to truly rivaling MS Office.
Also, OOo3 is the first release to have a native Aqua port - this means you can run it on OS X without an X server.
I've found OOo to be extremely good, a definite contender to MS Office, the only problem is that it isn't the quickest application around.
http://openoffice.cs.utah.edu/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_MacOSXIntel_AQUA_install_en-US.dmg
That link to OOo should be openoffice.org not openoffice.com.
Also I completely agree that OOo is not the complete shiznit when compared to M$Office. However with the lovely price of free, it does the job of typing snotty letters to corporations whilst at home just fine.
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