OpenOffice.org 2.3 has been released. "Available for download now, OpenOffice.org 2.3 incorporates an extensive array of new features and enhancements to all its core components, and protects users from newly discovered security vulnerabilities. It is a major release and all users should download it."
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Member since:2006-03-22
"I would happily have you justify that feature complete, because I suspect you can't. If anything its the reverse. "
My father has become a recent convert to OpenOffice, I don't know if I would call him a power user (if for no other reason, I hate the phrase), however his tasks as a tutor would involve things along the lines of the following.
1) Producing reasonably complicated spreadsheets including both graphing and formulae.
2) Within the document writer, producing math formulae for exams and course work.
3) General DB work, forms, etc.
The only two area's that my father feels that OO falls behind MSOffice is
1) Within the spreadsheet, data representation in the form of graphing. He finds the UI within office FAR easier to work with. He knows features work as when he saves it in office open it in calc, and the info is represented, however he can do it within office.
2) the equation editor in writer is not as user friendly as within office.
Other then that, he has no real qualms.
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2006-03-12
"not be the prettiest app you used (but now it has a new tango-based icon set), and it may not be feature complete"
I would happily have you justify that feature complete, because I suspect you can't. If anything its the reverse.
It does many things better than Microsoft Office for example styles; built in pdf; good html formatting.
...and it is *very* pretty. The second I saw it on GNU I loved it. I love it on windows too. I love it when I see it bundled on machines.
I love an application that can be released early and with no fanfare, and continues to churn out new code.
Edited 2007-09-18 21:40