Open Office 2.0 Beta Candidate Released 415
JPyObjC Dude writes "The
OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta candidate has been released. You can find the feature guide that covers the wide array of improvements over the current 1.1 release. There are a bunch of problematic UI quirks in 1.1 that have been fixed in 2.0." Feature categories include increased interoperability with Microsoft Office, Asian Language Features, Developer-Specific Features, and new Internet based features. Commentary and an interview with Colm Smyth available at NewsForge.com.
One day it'll be as good as MS Office! (Score:5, Funny)
I just don't know what I would do without all the incredibly useful toolbars in MS Office! Publishing my documents to the web, imbedding oh-so useful macros into all my documents. I like to turn them all on at the same time. I think there might even be an FTP client in there somewhere. You know what else I like about MS Office? I totally love th
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Torrent link? (Score:1, Funny)
Maximum row number (Score:5, Funny)
But I just got done compiling OpenOffice 1.0 . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Re:OO.o for OS X? (Score:3, Funny)
Which makes me beat my head against the wall. I'm stuck with using Abiword for when I need to open Word documents, or
I feel like I need to go to a free clinic every time I have to open an O2k app just out of sheer risk of Microsofection.
"Yes, doctor, I installed all the patches. Yes, I leave automatic updates on. Yes I have SP2 installed. No, I didn't notice that rash before I installed sp2."
Beta candidate? (Score:3, Funny)
What does that mean?
"Please let us know if you have any problems. We'll go through a couple of release candidates and then, once it's stable enough, we'll release it as a beta and you can all start testing it!"
Beta Candidate?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Now smaller! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:column limit (Score:3, Funny)
Try normalizing your data.
Re:What Open Office Really Needs... (Score:5, Funny)
Which version?
Re:Maximum row number (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately, my boss uses spreadsheets (for populatoin models) with way more than 65k rows. He's stuck with Corel's spreadsheet, because it will do 1M by 1M spreadsheets.
Obviously, we shouldn't be doing that sort of thing is a spreadsheet, but that's another story.
Re:Rundown of what to expect? (Score:3, Funny)
It's not even a beta yet. As far as stability goes, you shouldn't be surprised if it eats both your children and your dog.
It may work wonderfully for you, but again: it's a _BETA_. The people at OO.org can't really guarantee you anything because the point behind most beta releases is that the release is unstable and needs testing. They do these releases for the purposes of flushing out the hairy bugs that keep people like yourself away from it - if you're scared of it breaking your system, then it's not for you.
Re:Maximum row number (Score:3, Funny)
I keed, I keed...
Your state is much prettier than my red-clay-and-kudzu-infested hell hole of a state. Unless you're not actually Alaskan, in which case I retract everything I just said pending the outcome of a fuller investigation.
Re:RPM only ?? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:One day it'll be as good as MS Office! (Score:3, Funny)
This has to bee the first time I've seen a post like that modded Insightful...I laughed my ass off.