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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta and Extensions Show Strong Momentum; Office Productivity...

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta and Extensions Show Strong Momentum; Office Productivity Suite Delivers Document Accessibility for Mac Users with Disabilities Advanced Integration of OpenOffice.org with Apple VoiceOver, ODF Editing is Now Accessible on All Key Desktop Platforms; More Than 100 Extensions Available for OpenOffice.org BERLIN--(Business Wire)-- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA), the leading Open Source company, and the OpenOffice.org(TM) community today announced the availability of more than 100 extensions in the OpenOffice.org Extension Repository with the most popular ones achieving downloads of more than 200,000. Extensions are additional components downloaded on top of an existing OpenOffice.org installation to add extra features, templates, languages and dictionaries to the software.

OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0 Beta 1

OpenOffice.org Portable is a fully functional package of OpenOffice.org optimized for use on a USB key drive. The portable OpenOffice.org office suite is bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher to allow you to edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the go.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Release

The OpenOffice.org community is looking for regular users of OpenOffice.org to test and evaluate the just released OpenOffice.org 3.0 public beta release, which is immediately available in US English for MS-Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and OpenSolaris platforms.

OpenOffice.org For Windows 3.0.0 BETA 1

The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce that the public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available. This beta release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage.

First Look: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Public Beta

A new beta version of OpenOffice.org was released last month. I've used the OpenOffice.org productivity suite almost exclusively over the past few years for producing documents, and it has always done what I've needed it to. I've seen it grow from its version 1.x days to become a serious competitor to Microsoft Office, and the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta (OO3) continues that trend.

Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org

CWmike writes "Preston Gralla has a decent idea that could move the office needle: If Google really wanted to deliver a knockout punch to Microsoft, it would integrate OpenOffice with Google Docs, and sell support for the combined suite to small businesses, medium-sized business, and large corporations. Given the reach of Google, the quality of OpenOffice, and the lure of free, it's a sure winner. Imagine if a version of it were available as a Web service from Google, combined with massive amounts of Google storage. Integrated with Google Docs, it would also allow online collaboration. For those who wanted more features, the full OpenOffice suite would be available as a client — supported by Google. wouldn't be at all surprised to see this happen.

OpenOffice.org - OpenOffice 2.4

The maturity of OpenOffice is fast winning over many of those still deep-rooted in a Microsoft Office way of working, and while this latest release isn't likely to tip too many more over the edge, it's a further move forward in the quest to be accepted as the legitimate alternative that it already is.

OpenOffice 3.0 available for public beta

Open source project OpenOffice.org has released OpenOffice 3.0 beta, an application suite that runs on Apple OS X's native Aqua user interface.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta and Extensions Show Strong Momentum

Advanced Integration of OpenOffice.org with Apple VoiceOver, ODF Editing is Now Accessible on All Key Desktop Platforms; More Than 100 Extensions Available for OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta and Extensions Show Strong Momentum

Advanced Integration of OpenOffice.org with Apple VoiceOver, ODF Editing is Now Accessible on All Key Desktop Platforms; More Than 100 Extensions Available for OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice for Mac up to beta 3

imageSun Microsystems and the OpenOffice.org community have announced the availability of more than 100 extensions in the OpenOffice.org Extension Repository with the most popular ones achieving downloads of more than 200,000.

OpenOffice.org Extension Repository Numbers Over 100

More than 100 extensions are now available in the OpenOffice.org Extension Repository, including template packs, a report designer, tools for professional writers, translation, presentation compression functionality and others. One of the most recent releases is the PDF Import Extension. Blogger Artem Khvat reports that this new extension allows users to import and modify PDF documents in OpenOffice.org Draw and export them to the Open Document Format (ODF). The layout of imported PDF document has been kept as close as possible to the original document. This version supports PDF documents up to version 1.4. Import of PDF documents with restricted permissions is not yet possible, though plans for it to be available in later versions are in the works.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta and Extensions Show Strong Momentum; Office Productivity Suite Delivers Document Accessibility for Mac Users with Disabilities

BERLIN - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA), the leading Open Source company, and the OpenOffice.org(TM) community today announced the availability of more than 100 extensions in the OpenOffice.org Extension Repository with the most popular ones achieving downloads of more than 200,000.

Free OpenOffice 3.0 software now in test version

Hamburg - OpenOffice, the free office software suite, now has version 3.0 available in a test version. The test version is available for free download at e.openoffice.org, according to the operators. New features include Startcenter, which allows quick access to important features.

What's Holding OpenOffice Back?

Why don't more people use OpenOffice, the free and open source alternative to Microsoft Office? Microsoft has spent years and dollars engineering creative ways to keep people using its costly software and preventing them from switching to OpenOffice -- that's one explanation, writes Lou Dolinar.

What's Holding OpenOffice Back?

Why don't more people use OpenOffice, the free and open source alternative to Microsoft Office? Microsoft has spent years and dollars engineering creative ways to keep people using its costly software and preventing them from switching to OpenOffice -- that's one explanation, writes Lou Dolinar.


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