OpenOffice 3.0 Beta available.

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http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/

The cool thing about this is that Mac OSX users can use it without needing X11. NB: only for intel Macs.

http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html

With Version 3.0, OpenOffice.org is now able to run on Mac OS X without the need for X11. Thus, OpenOffice.org behaves like any other Aqua application. The cool thing is, while the market leading office suite vendor dropped VBA support and the Solver feature, OpenOffice.org recently introduced limited VBA support and includes a powerful Solver component. In addition, OpenOffice.org integrates well with the Mac OS X accessibility APIs, and thus offers better accessibility support than many other Mac OS X applications. Finally, people like OpenOffice.org 3.0 for Mac OS X because of its very good stability and performance. Reportedly, some Mac users have switched to OpenOffice.org just because of its extremely good stability.
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commish said:
Office 2008 > all.
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:lol No.

Best online collaboration: Google Docs
Free direct download for all platforms: OOo
Best performance: OOo

If your job/studies revolve around making spreadsheets or slideshow presentations, then you probably want Office 2008 for its broad feature set. Everyone else is better off without.
 
Baryn said:
:lol No.

Best online collaboration: Google Docs
Free direct download for all platforms: OOo
Best performance: OOo

If your job/studies revolve around making spreadsheets or slideshow presentations, then you probably want Office 2008 for its broad feature set. Everyone else is better off without.
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Whoa.. Best performance goes to OOo? :lol :lol That's the funniest thing ever (unless you're just talking about Macs.)
 
zoku88 said:
Whoa.. Best performance goes to OOo? :lol :lol That's the funniest thing ever (unless you're just talking about Macs.)
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I use Office 2004 on Mac, so OOo is a hell of a lot faster, and 2008 just came out so I can't say. I can say that, on XP, the time opening files is faster in OOo than Office 2008.
 
Baryn said:
I use Office 2004 on Mac, so OOo is a hell of a lot faster, and 2008 just came out so I can't say. I can say that, on XP, the time opening files is faster in OOo than Office 2008.
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Oh, so it was just Macs, then. Sorry.
 
Is it better than neooffice yet? The last alpha quality aqua implementation of openoffice I used was still garbage.
 
Baryn said:
I use Office 2004 on Mac, so OOo is a hell of a lot faster, and 2008 just came out so I can't say. I can say that, on XP, the time opening files is faster in OOo than Office 2008.
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Office 2004 sucks on Mac (from what I am told repeatedly). Office 2008 is what I use and it is fantastic. I was a hardcore NeoOffice lover until I recently tried Office 2008 because of some dumb formatting issues I had with NO. Now I'll never go back.
 
maharg said:
Is it better than neooffice yet? The last alpha quality aqua implementation of openoffice I used was still garbage.
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It seems to be much better than the alphas so far.
 
Office 2004 was still PowerPC code running in the Rosetta emulator on Intel macs. Office 2008 is the first version that is native x86.
 
Baryn said:
Best performance: OOo
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:lol :lol :lol :lol

I've never used Office 2008, but Office XP is at least twice as fast, and possibly 3-4x faster than OOo, and still has more/better implemented features.

OOo is still so basic in many ways. Some of the many things that make it useless in everyday work for me:

- Accounting isn't a built in number format in the spreadsheet, I have to enter a custom format mask. Example -5 should be displayed as (5). Isn't accounting like the most common use for spreadsheets?

- Printing any spreadsheet of more than moderate complexity is a mess. Cuts off columns and rows, doesn't fit to the number of pages I tell it to, etc.

- We mark every spreadsheet with a file path to locate it on the network. =cell("filename"). OOo puts a file:/// infront of the path instead of just displaying it like it should.
 
How nice:

Open Office failed to mount: Codec overrun.
 
I just installed Java on the new netbook (so I can use facebook) :D - and it said I could grab this for free with java. How is this? Its free? I think I'll only be doing simple text documents on this. Holyshit... I just touched typed all that quick speed. :) loving the aspire one!!!!! <3
 
Just tried to download via official site - its about 138mb but it was coming down at 5.6kb/second. I cancelled it. Oh well, so much for that.
 
I cant beleive people like to give their money to Microsoft for something they can legally get for free, which is totally compatible.
 
goomba said:
I cant beleive people like to give their money to Microsoft for something they can legally get for free, which is totally compatible.
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Well the bulk of people don't know what it is and what it can offer. The only marketing it has is word of mouth. People also don't like to change their office suites that they're so used to.

But yah, if OO got the same push as Firefox, it might have better mindshare with the general public.
 
goomba said:
I cant beleive people like to give their money to Microsoft for something they can legally get for free, which is totally compatible.
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For a lot of people, knowing that a document will open flawlessly on a different computer is worth the money. I wouldn't want to use OpenOffice in a professional environment, for instance, because I don't want clients to have to deal with any quirks going from one program to another.

If a wholesale shift occurred in the professional marketplace then I'd consider using OO. For now, though, I can understand why some still choose to pay. Besides, how many people buy retail individual office licenses? I think that many people get the program pre-installed(cost built into system), through a company site license(free), through Academic Alliance(where the program is extremely cheap), or through an MSDN or MSDN-like program(free, assuming that you need the MSDN license anyway or your company foots the bill). I'd be interested to see how many people shell out retail prices for Office.
 
theBishop said:
does it handle docx? I've got Office2003 on my work PC (vista :( ) and my boss keeps sending me these files! :lol
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Yes even it does, but microsoft also put out a patch so that you can read docx on office 2003.


Edit: Shit old bump :(
 
Why the fuck can't they update the interface, to not make it look like its stuck in 1995? Whats wrong with getting some new, higher resolution icons? From what I can tell from screenshots, it looks very similar to Oo 2.0. This makes a large phychological difference as to whether people believe its as capable/well produced as other applications.
 
Baryn said:
If your job/studies revolve around making spreadsheets or slideshow presentations, then you probably want Office 2008 for its broad feature set.
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and i would also add, "if you want to run what 99% of everyone else is running without converters, get office 2008"
 
Fuck OpenOffice. I'm such a manly man I can't be bothered with program which is not as well known and have sexy logos that fill my screen when I click the mouse with my massive manly fingers.
 
commish said:
Office 2008 > all.
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I'm amazed anyone could like Office 2008, but since you have a Vic Mackey avatar I'll excuse you.

CaptainABAB said:
Office 2004 was still PowerPC code running in the Rosetta emulator on Intel macs. Office 2008 is the first version that is native x86.
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It's still slow as molasses though.
 
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