OpenOffice 3 has PDF import, native Aqua UI, and Tara Reid
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| We love OpenOffice.org, hereby referred to as OpenOffice like normal people
| do. We like the fact it does pretty much everything we need for free, we like
| the out-of-the box PDF and Flash support, its better-than-Word ability to
| work with large documents, and the joys of using a standard file format
| that’s actually, you know, a standard.
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http://blog.gobanquet.com/index.php/openoffice-3-has-pdf-import-native-aqua-ui-tara-reid/
The Top Ten Open Source Applications for Educators
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| Open Source is a great resource for educators not only because it is free,
| but many times you can find specific applications for your needs. Click
| through the Google slide show and click on the links if you would like to
| download any of the applications.
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http://classroomnext.blogspot.com/2008/01/open-scource-software.html
Mind the Google Docs object. It's HTML-based (no Flash, no JS). That's the type
of stuff that is a greater threat to Office than ODF.
Related:
OpenOffice 3 Coming Soon
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| • release candidate for all languages: July 25th, 2008, begin of TCM testing
| • Product release: September 2nd, 2008 or OOoCon 2008 mid
| September.008-01-13/
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http://youtux.mybloges.com/2008/01/19/openoffice-3-coming-soon/
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease30
IBM, Apple Team to Take on Microsoft
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| IBM will release Lotus Notes and its Lotus Symphony productivity package, a
| free alternative to the documents and other software in Microsoft Office, for
| Apple’s Macintosh computers.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/IBM-Apple-Team-to-Take-on-Microsoft/
OpenOffice.Org 3.0 feature list
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| OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2007) is taking place this week. Among the
| first information available is a talk about the future of OOorg.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/openofficeorg-30-feature-list/
Leopard to Natively Support ODF
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| OpenDocument took another step away from obscurity Tuesday, as Apple
| confirmed that Mac OS X version 10.5 -- known as "Leopard" -- will natively
| support ODF files, alongside Microsoft's Word 2007 formats. Apple had
| previously added support for the format in its Pages word processing
| application.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Leopard_to_Natively_Support_ODF/1192634927
Mac OS X version of OpenOffice slated for next September
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| A version of the free OpenOffice.org productivity suite that will work
| natively on Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system may finally be ready in
| September 2008.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9037498
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| "[Microsoft:] For example, we should take the lead in establishing a common
| approach to UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part). Our
| efforts to date are focussed too much on our own apps, and only incidentally
| on the rest of the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should
| not participate in standards groups. Rather, we should call 'to me' to the
| industry and set a standard that works now and is for everyone's
| benefit. We are large enough that this can work."
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http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip
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