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OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC1 released

Today the OpenOffice.org team released the first Release Candidate of the upcoming third version of the popular free alternative to omnipresent Microsoft Office.

This Release Candidate code-freezes many of the new features present on the third version of OpenOffice.org; for example it includes:

  • updated ODF format support with the inclusion of the features of the upcoming version 1.2 of the ISO standard;
  • support of the new Microsoft Office XML format included in Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X;
  • Native support for Mac OS X without the need for X11;
  • Ability to share spreadsheets with multiple users.

The official release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is expected by the end of the month.

Links

OpenOffice website: http://www.openoffice.org/;

OpenOffice 3.0 RC1 download: http://download.openoffice.org/680/;

OpenOffice 3.0 RC1 Release Notes: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.0.0rc1.html.

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