OpenOffice 3.0 Officially Launched Today

Mon, Oct 13, 2008

Freeware, Windows

Although it was big buzz last week, as OpenOffice, the Open Source Microsoft Office competitor, began deployment of version 3.0 of their incredibly popular suite. It wasn’t officially launched until today, where it has brought plenty of excellent new features with it.

The site quickly went down today, but with plenty of mirrors already out there, you can get it just about anywhere you look…FileHippo Download Link

Open Office 3.0 New Core Feature List

  • MAC OS X Support w/o the need for X11
  • ODF(Open Document Format) 1.2 Support
  • Office 2007 Support…FINALLY!!!….docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.
  • New Fresh Icons
  • Start Center – When you open a file, you are prompted with what application you want to use.
  • Impress now supports importing of tables.

Those are a few of the bigger new features of 3.0.  For a full list, go to the list at OpenOffice.org.

Download OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 – FileHippo.com.

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One Response to “OpenOffice 3.0 Officially Launched Today”

  1. Madhur Kapoor Says:
    October 14th, 2008 at 4:09 am

    I need to try this and see if it can replace Microsoft Office for me. Btw man, good to see you back blogging. How have u been ?

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