OpenOffice 3 released

primesuspect

And it is FINALLY compatible with OS X natively...

OpenOffice.org let loose the 3rd point release of their open source office suite today, complete with a native OS X build as well as RPM, DEB, Solaris x86, Solaris SPARC, and of course Windows versions. The OS X version is for Intel macs only, as the PPC build is still 2.4.1 and still relies on X11.

OpenOffice... Continue reading

MiracleManS

I'll be downloading this on my home PC as soon as I get back. I'm done with MS Office until they get rid of the damned ribbon UI.

j

Looks like 3.0 you have to pay for. Eh I'll take office 2007 any day. Much Much better

Thrax

No, you don't have to pay for OoO 3.0. It's pretty much a direct, free clone of Office 07.

But I use Google Docs exclusively now anyhow.

primesuspect

Jeff, what the hell are you talking about? OpenOffice is open source. That means it's free.

kryyst

Hopefully this isn't a problem for anyone else but I was running the Ooo3 beta's with no problems but when I installed this version, it removed the beta install cleanly (nice for a change) but it wouldn't start, it kept crashing. Tried uninstalling rebooting, run cccleaner, reboot again fresh install and still crashed. I was going to go back to the beta, but found that this fixed the problem.

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Administration_Guide/Deactivating_Registration_Wizard

The crash on start was something to do with the first time run registration thingy. The instructions in that link tell you how to stop it. Soon as I did that everything worked fine.