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OpenOffice.org 3.0 coming in September 2008

Posted by Emil Protalinski on 19 January 2008 - 20:45 · 15 comments & 13393 views

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. OpenOffice.org is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, which is the primary contributor of code to the Project. Over 180,000 people from every nearly every curve of the globe have joined this Project with the idea of creating the best possible office suite that all can use. They do so under the auspices of "open source."

Release Schedule:

first translation handover: January 18th, 2008
UI and Feature_freeze: March 6th, 2008
Translation update 3.0 start: March 13th, 2008
Translation update 3.0 delivery: April 3rd, 2008, code freeze for Beta
begin TCM testing: April 10th, 2008
"last cws integration" for Beta: April 17th, 2008
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: April 30th, 2008
code_freeze, last regular translation delivery: July 4th, 2008
Last cws integration for fixes: July 18th, 2008
release candidate for all languages: July 25th, 2008, begin of TCM testing
Product release: September 2nd, 2008 or OOoCon 2008 mid September ?

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(2 replies) #1 Posted by Chugworth on 19 Jan 2008 - 22:00: Nice, but that's still quite a few months away. I wonder if they are going to add a grammar check to it now. I played around with OpenOffice a few weeks ago just to see how far they have come, and I was surprised that they don't even have a grammar check.

OpenOffice is a nice office suite to be offered for free. But when you place it beside Microsoft Office, then Microsoft Office is still just better.

#2 Posted by HawkMan on 19 Jan 2008 - 22:04: isn't this a bit of a non-news ?

"A few months downthe line we'll have actual new that a pre-beta will be launched"....

(1 reply) #3 Posted by th3rEsa on 19 Jan 2008 - 23:18: I remember having read that OO.org 3.0 will contain PDF editing. I hope its true.

#4 Posted by Weissmeister on 19 Jan 2008 - 23:44: And I hope it will be faster. Keeping up with all the features of MS Office seems impossible for the developers, let's just hope they will speed OOo up.

#5 Posted by +Raa on 20 Jan 2008 - 00:23: I hope they'll have native opening/saving of Office 2007 documents tbh

(3 replies) #6 Posted by night_stalker_z on 20 Jan 2008 - 01:16: Sounds good. They said they probably change the interface so it looks like IBM Lotus Notes instead of the Office 2007 ribbon.

(1 reply) #7 Posted by soldier1st on 20 Jan 2008 - 18:46: for version 3 they should remove the dependancy of java and move to something better and if they added support for office 2007's file formats,maybe using xml would be a good idea for openoffice 3.0,the ribbon can be useful but then again depending on how it is used it could be considered a spacehod or useless clutter.

#8 Posted by Shiranui on 21 Jan 2008 - 01:02: They really need an Outlook equivalent. An exchange clone would be nice too.

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