OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Final Available for Download

The release of MS Office 14 isn't very far away but the new version of Open Office 3.0 is available now ahead of Office 14 from MS.

The Open Source program Open Office is free for everybody as an alternative to the Microsoft software. But Open Office had lost it's advatage of the ISO Standard Open Document Format since the ISO standardization of Open XML. With the new version of Open Office for both Windows and OS-X Open Offoce is back in the race.

You can read in the product description: "In addition to read and write support for the Microsoft Office binary file formats (.doc; .xls, .ppt, etc.), OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 is now capable of opening files created with Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.). Thus, OpenOffice.org users can interact with users still using Microsoft Office. The various filters for the Microsoft Office file formats also make mixed environments possible, so that some users stay on Microsoft Office while others use OpenOffice.org, ................"

Open office has a quite huge range of enhancements, includes Touch-up interfaces to support OS-X and others and is now capable of opening files in the new formats from Office 2007 and 2008 (Windows and Mac). Open Office 3.0 now supports tha new formats like: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.

This makes it easy for user of both Office systems to stay with "them" system while able to inter- and exchange the produced documents and Data.

Steve Balmer for example stated: "Competition is a good thing, you hear me say the same thing, and the truth is we've had a lot of good competition. We've had StarOffice, we've had Open Office, we've had various – well, if you ask me today, I'm not recommending Open Office, but Open Office is a stronger product than the Google word processor and the Google spreadsheet. Open Office is free. Open Office has not been – it's not as powerful as Microsoft Office, but it's much more powerful than the Google products today."

Download: OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Final: Free Download

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