OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here 284
SNate writes "After a grinding three-year development cycle, the OpenOffice.org team has finally squeezed out a new release. New features include support for the controversial Microsoft OOXML file format, multi-page views in Writer, and PDF import via an extension. Linux Format has an overview of the new release, asking the question: is it really worth the 3.0 label?"
As always, KDE leads the way (Score:5, Funny)
Look, it's simple: 3.0 is not really 3.0, but it should be considered 3.0-developer-alpha-gold. The next release will be 3.2-beta-silver-GTi, followed quickly by 3.1.1.0-gold-gold-always-believe-in-your-soul, which may (or may not) be ready for end users. Provided no show-stopper bugs are found in that (& if they are they'll just be re-classified as "WORKSFORME" and the submitter flamed), the final 3.0.1.45 version will be released to end users (apart from those in Arizona and Ohio. They have to wait for 3.1.5)
This is so obvious you'd have to be an idiot not to understand it! Duh!
Re:Forbidden (Score:5, Funny)
I'll wait a few days for fixes (Score:5, Funny)
In a few days 3.01, 3.02 and 3.03 will be coming out, so I'll wait for those fixes to come out before I put down my hard-earned money
Johnny Walker (Score:5, Funny)
They should just kill the minor versioning altogether and move to a "red label"/"black label" system.
NO ! It's a miracle ! (Score:5, Funny)
Despite your atheist propaganda, you cannot deny that we whitnessing a miragulous miracle of HIs widsom and glory in full extend.
HIs noodle appendages haveth thouched the server and thus it displays his words to enlighten the unbelievers.
Behold the word: "ContentHelmNoodle"
In this time of unrest and crisis his tells us to trust in his tomatoe sauce and that we will be protected by his mercy and meatballs.
Re:NO ! It's a miracle ! (Score:1, Funny)
Behold the word: "Soap"
Re:I'll wait a few days for fixes (Score:5, Funny)
You jest, but $0 here, $0 there might start to add up. Sure it's not much money to some, but unlike many other computer users I already spent $0 on my operating system, $0 on my DVR software, and $0 on nearly every application I run. Now OOo is asking for yet another $0 just to run their little "Office suite".
Re:Forbidden (Score:5, Funny)
ContentHelmNoodle?! WTF?
The next thing we'll be serving our pages with ParkingBrakeTurboAubergines.
Hardly Impressive (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'll wait a few days for fixes (Score:5, Funny)
You're the reason the economy is tanking! You must consume and spend lots of money! All this irresponsible zero expenditures are the cause of all our woes! Oh I'm sure the overspending by Congress plays a small role, but you are just plain EVIL!!!
Re:Pre-Slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hardly Impressive (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'll wait a few days for fixes (Score:2, Funny)
I'd like to moderate you "+2 Insightful+Funny" :)
Re:Why do .. (Score:1, Funny)
they're lysdexic.
The Squeeze (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they should have just eaten a lot of prunes.
Re:Great ... err ... (Score:3, Funny)
Can you spot the flaw in the reasoning? (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, Symphony might suck giant donkey balls, or make users so happy they crap rainbows, but either way, since you haven't even tried it, of course your opinion is "relatively worthless" -- I'd even go so far as to say "completely worthless". Sheesh. At least try it out before slagging it.
(And no, I don't care about Symphony one way or the other -- something about this "I've never used it but I'm still qualified to bitch about it" attitude just pisses me off.)
Cheers,
OOXML (Score:5, Funny)
OpenOffice.org: "It's fully compliant and supports Microsoft OOXML file format."
Microsoft: "AHAAAAHH!! That's not possible. Uh, ... I mean ... uh, ..." (Psst, hey, did we miss something? How'd they do that?)
OO.o makes great .doc resumes! (Score:5, Funny)
I make my resume in OO.o and save it to .ODF.
I then take screenshots of it (or print to postscript), then paste the cropped screenshots into OO.o and save that result as a .DOC file.
And hey, it keeps formatting exactly as you want it! :)
Wow, they still have those? (Score:1, Funny)
> It's one of those things that used to pop up and ask us to buy stuff before adblocker came out.
The internet still has those!? I thought they vanished several years ago because I haven't seen one in so long.