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What's your favourite open-source Microsoft Office alternative? Yay! I love OpenOffice too! Let's be friends, and throw a party, because version 3.0 has just been released. In the new version: native Mac OS X compatibility, support for version 1.2 of the OpenDocument format, and compatibility with Microsoft's OOXML format. The latter feature is particularly useful, given that Office 2007 saves .docx files by default - something that's confused many a hapless user as they tried to send stuff to people using older versions of the office suite. OpenOffice 3.0 also features a bunch of usability and interface improvements. There's a new icon set, a slider for zooming into the page and a new launcher interface, among other things. Older versions of the software were a little buggy, and not quite ready for primetime. Users... [read full story]
