17 October 2008 - OpenOffice 3.0 released
After a long time in development, OpenOffice 3.0 has been unleashed
OpenOffice 3.0 has been released after a long period of heavy development
Version 3 of this free alternative to Microsoft's Office has introduced many new changes. Including filters to import Office 2007 documents.
OpenOffice 3.0 already includes the new 1.2 specification of ODF. This basically means documents can theoretically be imported into any program capable of reading the ODF format. ODF was designed so that the underlying structure of a document is portable and not controlled and hidden away like the Microsoft Office formats are and means no one company controls the format of the document
OpenOffice 3.0 is now supported natively on Mac OS X and compatible with Windows Vista
The full release list can be found on the Open Office 3 features page.
