development.openoffice.org — Available for download now, OpenOffice.org 2.3 incorporates an extensive array of new features and enhancements to all its core components, and protects users from newly discovered security vulnerabilities. It is a major release and all users should download it.
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Closed AccountSep 18, 2007
kudos for being an early adopter. While they are feature lacking I do use them myself heavily merely for the convenience. Google constantly works on their apps so Im sure its just a matter of patience. Lets not forget its free to.
fknightSep 18, 2007
"Until Google (or someone) comes up with a way to allow you to edit documents offline through a browser applet and sync up to the server when you reconnect"You mean like Office 2007? Oh wait, no one wants all those bloated features, right?
toxicredmSep 19, 2007
MSOffice users get *all* the babes.
Closed AccountSep 19, 2007
2.3 is already in the gutsy repos. I'm using it right now.
ilgazSep 23, 2007
Thanks to them not releasing 2.3 for OS X along with all clients, I finally made myself sure that "iWork" is way to go. The Windows port is the hard part, OS X has FreeBSD/POSIX foundation along with a real X11. That simply shows they don't really care or listen to couple of mac fanboy loudmouth idiots who doesn't do anything but whine about default GTK theme.I decided "lets check the packaging systems" and both Fink, Macports doesn't have 2.3 too. Of course how can they have without support of Sun? That is a gigantic thing to compile, it is not a "helloworld.c" program.So feel free to call me "maccie", I have chosen a product which actually cares about my platform.
masterthiefsterSep 24, 2007
iWork the way to go? Too bad Pages doesn't have as rich a feature set as OpenOffice.org, and forces you to use a multitude of tabbed toolboxes rather than traditional toolbars. The tab design is nice for hiding the really complex functions you don't generally need (font shadow light source angle, for instance) and thus making the workspace tidier, but because the single toolbar included has no real customisability you can't customise the workspace to display all the functions you want at once. This means that using it for anything more than a text-only document takes an artificially longer time than it does in competing software.A font drop-down? Nay, that Windoze heresy shall never again pollute the Mac! Thou must open the font toolbox and click the correct tab before choosing a font, mere mortal! Behold the revolutionary toolbar-free screen concept that Micro$haft is already stealing with their inferior "ribbon" system!Go ahead and digg me down, fanboys. You know I speak the bitter truth.