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- Magnes, on 10/21/2008, -4/+43Linux users probably wait for it to hit repositories of their distributions. As I do. :)
- inactive, on 10/21/2008, -5/+26Since I started using OpenOffice (at home) I see no reason to use (or buy) any other office type suite. It's an excellent package.
- socme, on 10/21/2008, -4/+25OpenOffice.org's goal of winning 40% of the office software market by 2010 "doesn't seem as ambitious today as it did four years ago," said McCreesh.
- atlquaker, on 10/21/2008, -1/+19Sweet. I hope OpenAdobeSuite is next. Specifically OpenFlash.
- sleeknerve, on 10/21/2008, -1/+18someone woke up on the wrong side of their moms bed this morning
- TrevorPace, on 10/21/2008, -1/+14You're an idiot. Open source is great. You know this site? Yeah it's processed by PHP which is open-source.
I don't know why I'm arguing with a troll though. - Gzero, on 10/21/2008, -6/+18My main complaint about OpenOffice that still isn't addressed is the toolbar interface. The new versions of Office have an excellent UI. That said, I'm still using OpenOffice just because it's free, but currently it still isn't up to par with Office.
- damentz, on 10/21/2008, -3/+14Hold on, you had a few typos:
I think all of you proprietary ***** can go ***** yourselves. Proprietary products are ***** 100% OF THE TIME. Why would you use *****? If you want a NON-***** office program, use Open Office. Honestly, get a ***** life, SEPTIC TANK CLEANERS.
***** *****-windows, ***** pro-*****-prary license, fyck m$ office, ***** you.
fixed. - MattBD, on 10/21/2008, -1/+12Exactly. Unless there's a pressing reason to have the new version, it's generally not worth the bother of getting it.
That said, it's a shame that Ubuntu Intrepid will miss out on this by so little. I was somewhat annoyed when Feisty came out and it missed Mozilla Thunderbird 2 by 1 day. - inactive, on 10/21/2008, -5/+15I just downloaded it and think its great
- someguy92, on 10/21/2008, -0/+101. Open synaptic and search for open office
2. Remove all open office packages (just as you would run the "uninstaller" in windows to remove the older version)
3. Download the .deb and double click (to "run the installer")
OR...
Wait for it to hit the repository and let it upgrade itself (though you'll have to wait an extra 6 months) - virtorio, on 10/21/2008, -0/+9I brought a new hard-drive for my laptop this week and installed OpenOffice 3.0 instead of MS Office. So far I'm pretty happy with it.
- inactive, on 10/21/2008, -0/+8My sarcasm meter isn't broken.
MS Works. LOL! - coldkill3r, on 10/21/2008, -0/+7"Open source products are ***** 100% OF THE TIME. "
Apache? Amarok? - kd420, on 10/21/2008, -4/+11Have to say, even as a Linux user, that MS's release of the 07 line, with the ribbon, probably hurt open office a bit. If they kept the same old style, many people wouldn't want to spend more money on something that was pretty much identical to the last release. They took a chance with the new layout and it was praised (one of the few things MS got right recently.)
- omarciddo, on 10/21/2008, -0/+6Well, obviously most of the downloads are going to be Windows downloads; they still hold the greatest market share by far.
That aside, I downloaded it on Vista and it looks great...when I turn off Aero and go to the Windows standard colors. Under Aero, it has that weird Windows 98 gray color. Other than that, I love it. - PhailQuail, on 10/22/2008, -0/+6What amazes me is that there seems to be MS Office fanboys, I mean, really?
- attackfrog, on 10/21/2008, -3/+9As a recent adopter of Ubuntu, it confuses the heck out of me why I can't upgrade to 3.0 without doing some ridiculously complicated terminal thing. In Windows, I'd just run the installer. o_O
- fuhrysteve, on 10/21/2008, -0/+6they want to make sure the distribution runs very stable with openoffice, so they want plenty of time to test it with Intrepid to fix any compile time errors, etc.. but there are *fairly stable* (by my own standards) ways around this.. I have 3.0 running on my machine now with no problems:
https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive - daddymcguire, on 10/21/2008, -0/+5jeepers, openoffice must really get under some people's skin!
- infiniphunk, on 10/21/2008, -0/+4all the debs are already available, you just have to download the tarball, extract them and then use dpkg.
- whitehatlurker, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3OOo 3.0 gives you the option to remove previous versions during the install.
Not sure about an answer to your second question. Healthy? - Aleman360, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3Only had one weird issue so far... when you copy and paste a figure from Matlab into Writer (by doing Edit > Copy figure) the text gets funky. Still readable but the font looks like crap. Works fine in Word.
But overall it's awesome and I won't be spending any more money on Office. - mathcreative, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2I don't know about you but I don't date OO because of her looks, but of what she means to me. I believe in Open Source, but don't get me wrong I wouldn't use OO if it was crappy, because I don't want to put my download vote into something that would promote bad Open Source software.
- peanut1972, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2Kewl thanks. I will try and download it this weekend, hopefully the crowd has died down alittle by then. Our family has been using Open Office since 1.something (7 or eight not sure). It does everything we need it for, and a lot more.
I also went and read the full article and it answered my XML question. Thanks again. - inactive, on 10/21/2008, -5/+7I got rid of Microsoft office due to this. You can still save in the WORD and other important formats so there is absolutly no reason to buy expensive useless software any longer.. Hope Microsoft tanks, seems like they are.
- Wargalas, on 10/21/2008, -3/+5Personally, as a computer guy, I'm advocating Open Office more and more to the people I help out with computer problems. It does everything that Office does, doesn't cost anything, and people like it's familiar interface.
- motang, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2Damn dude that just sucks, I was able to add it via PPA. Try this ( https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive ) it worked for me.
- joshuasawyer, on 10/21/2008, -1/+3rick roll, don't follow link
- mathcreative, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2comeon digg34, stop acting like a two year old.
- mathcreative, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2I agree with you PepeGSay. MS Office is pretty good, it's better than OO. Yeah right their I said it. But what keeps me with Open Office, is not the price of it's greatest competitors it's the vote for Open Source.
If open office wasn't open source, but was freeware(with limitations). I won't use it! - mathcreative, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2Microsoft's products aren't the best but overall their decent, and even though they haven't invented anything or did anything new. Their still a bit responsible for pushing the computer industry to where it is today. Microsoft is a marketing people and they taught the tech industry how to market technology, and they taught the consumers(the whole world) how valuable technology is.
- whitehatlurker, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2I d/l OpenOffice releases via bittorrent (it's faster). I'm presuming that this is also included in the numbers, but does someone have a definitive answer to whether or not this is the case?
- shawnanigans, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2I'm still surprised there are fanboys at all.
- thethirdmoose, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2The entire suite is also only a little over 100 MB as opposed to office, which comes on a DVD...
- PepeGSay, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2So, can you name the functional issues you have with MS Office? Open Source ideals aside?
OpenOffice competes on price. Which is a fine place to compete, but price aside MS Office is a very good product. The Office teams at Microsoft is probably one of the best and has consistently met their objectives and user expectations. You could argue their goals for each new version seem to be sorta light though.
If MS Office were free then I doubt very many people would use OpenOffice.org (if it even existed), but Office isn't free. - VinojZ, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1I downloaded the suite on a Mac and I was very doubtful because I had tried the earlier version and was always annoyed by how long it took to start up just to edit one document, file, etc. I was pleasantly surprised however that it's now a native OSX app and seems to be just fine at what I need it to do. I concur with Philbert that downloading the entire suite just for Writer is a bit unnecessary, but I think it's because they want to (according to their documentation) give the sense that it's one 'package' with a similar UI experience and not a fragmented set of programs jumbled together.
- Tenoq, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1I have a solution, and it's to not submit your thesis in Word. :p
- clickwir, on 10/21/2008, -2/+35 computers now. I can install it, but it won't run! Click FINISH on the first run setup screen and it just hangs. I've seen it get past this on one computer after about a 20 second pause. But for 5 computers now, nothing. It just sits there eatting CPU time till I kill it 2 hours later.
- mathcreative, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1I don't know I heard that many people don't like it. I have seen for myself and I like it. Though I use OO to support open source.
- Philbert, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1I will have to test out this version. While I like it enough that I don't have MS Office installed, a few weeks go I had a client send me a script in .doc format and it would not open correctly at all in Writer. Apparently it had some strange formatting or something, but I got just over 1 page out of 11. The only thing I could do was start up the trial of Word 2007 that came with my laptop and that opened the file just fine.
it also kinda bugs me that they make you download the entire suite when all I want is Writer. - ethana2, on 10/21/2008, -0/+1You can count on it. Enable backports.
- ethana2, on 10/21/2008, -1/+2I eagerly await KOffice 2.0 for that very reason. I just wish Sun had made an office suite instead of a java tech demo.
- thethirdmoose, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1It's because it needs to open the Java JRE
- mathcreative, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1Does adobe make money off of flash, or do they just make money off the tools that create it.
- charlietuna, on 10/22/2008, -1/+2Wait until you must submit a thesis in MS word. OpenOffice exports to word imperfectly and named cross references break. I wish they could fix that but I think it's an issue with word.
- inactive, on 10/21/2008, -2/+3Java = junk
- infection0, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1it does indeed load much slower than office 2007.
- mathcreative, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1Would it work in rich text format? About anything can read that!
- Nephersir7, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1They voted for Bush twice
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