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OpenOffice 2.0 finally released
http://www.tomshardware.com/site/submission/feedback.html - Humphrey Cheung
20 Oct 2005 23:03
Westlake Village (CA) - Today OpenOffice.org released its
newest version of the famously free application suite, OpenOffice 2.0.
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and spreadsheet. In 2000, developers morphed Sun Microsystems old
office suite, StarOffice, into OpenOffice 1.0. While many considered
the first version of OpenOffice to be a good first try, OpenOffice 2.0
aims to be a more serious contender.
The applications Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math and Base are
included with the OpenOffice suite. Each application has a direct
counterpart to applications inside of Microsoft's Office Suite - Writer
is similar to Word, Calc is similar to Excel and so on. OpenOffice 2.0
has been improved to support OASIS, which is an open XML format, unlike
Microsoft Office's proprietary binary format.
One major reason people may want to switch to OpenOffice is cost -
The suite remains free. In contrast, a retail version of Microsoft
Office can cost several hundred dollars. It's no wonder that Office is
a huge money maker for Microsoft and in fiscal year 2004, the Office
unit had $11 billion of Microsoft's $40 billion in revenue. OpenOffice
throws in a forms generator and technical drawing program, which are
applications that must be purchased separately from Microsoft Office.
In addition, OpenOffice has a free Adobe PDF generator. In contrast, a
retail copy of http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/20/openoffice20/index.html#" style="border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; text-decoration: underline; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent;" class="iAs - Adobe Acrobat 7.0 is $449.
There are some drawbacks to OpenOffice. It doesn't include an email
program, while Microsoft's Office bundles Outlook email with their
suite. Some say this isn't really a drawback because users can always
download and install a free email client like Evolution, Kmail or
Mozilla's Thunderbird. In addition, some documents exported from
OpenOffice into Microsoft Office may have changes in formatting. For
most users, however, OpenOffice can read and write to/from Microsoft
Office documents.
OpenOffice 2.0 is currently available in dozens of languages and
users can install the suite on Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating
systems.
Link:
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.0/index.html - OpenOffice 2.0 Download Link
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