OpenOffice 3 released

Brian Ambrozy (primesuspect)

October 14, 2008 1:07 PM ET in News, ,

And it is FINALLY compatible with OS X natively…

OpenOffice.org let loose the 3rd point release of their open source office suite today, complete with a native OS X build as well as RPM, DEB, Solaris x86, Solaris SPARC, and of course Windows versions. The OS X version is for Intel macs only, as the PPC build is still 2.4.1 and still relies on X11.

OpenOffice 3 uses the ODF format as its native document format, but has support for MS Office 2007’s OOXML format as well, so that OpenOffice remains cross-app and cross-platform compatible with MS Office.

5 Comments:

  1. MiracleManS
    14 Oct '08, 5:14 pm

    I'll be downloading this on my home PC as soon as I get back. I'm done with MS Office until they get rid of the damned ribbon UI.

  2. j
    14 Oct '08, 7:35 pm

    Looks like 3.0 you have to pay for. Eh I'll take office 2007 any day. Much Much better

  3. Thrax
    14 Oct '08, 7:56 pm

    No, you don't have to pay for OoO 3.0. It's pretty much a direct, free clone of Office 07.

    But I use Google Docs exclusively now anyhow.

  4. primesuspect
    14 Oct '08, 8:52 pm

    Jeff, what the hell are you talking about? OpenOffice is open source. That means it's free.

  5. kryyst
    14 Oct '08, 8:57 pm

    Hopefully this isn't a problem for anyone else but I was running the Ooo3 beta's with no problems but when I installed this version, it removed the beta install cleanly (nice for a change) but it wouldn't start, it kept crashing. Tried uninstalling rebooting, run cccleaner, reboot again fresh install and still crashed. I was going to go back to the beta, but found that this fixed the problem.

    http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/...tration_Wizard

    The crash on start was something to do with the first time run registration thingy. The instructions in that link tell you how to stop it. Soon as I did that everything worked fine.

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