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Tech Talk: Can’t afford Microsoft Office? No sweat ...
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| OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word
| processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It
| stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also
| read and write Microsoft Office files. It can be downloaded and used
| completely free of charge for any purpose.
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http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20081125/NEWS/811259995/1066&ParentProfile=1051&title=Tech%20Talk
%20Can%92t%20afford%20Microsoft%20Office%3F%20No%20sweat%20...
http://tinyurl.com/6fl7sq
Recent:
Photos: Open Office 3 new features
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| The third major release of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite made
| its appearance on Monday — meeting with such apparent demand that the
| OpenOffice.org servers promptly crashed. At the time of writing on the
| following day, the organisation still has only a cut-down homepage, listing
| mirror sites from which the suite can be downloaded.
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| One major reason for the significance of OpenOffice 3 is the fact that it can
| run natively on the Mac — previously, it needed to be run within a windowed
| X11 session. But the suite has had many other enhancements, one of which is
| the welcome screen shown in this screenshot.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Photos-Open-Office-3-new-features/0,130061733,339292660,00.htm
OpenOffice.org 3.0 - Stop Paying Microsoft for Bug Fixes!
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| The bottom line is, if you are still using and paying for Microsoft Office,
| you're wasting your money AND you're working too hard. In the business
| climate we have today, I don't see how many people or companies can afford to
| do that.
|
| Give OpenOffice 3.0 a chance.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009532o-2000498448b,00.htm?new_comment
Getting The Word Out About OpenOffice.org 3
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| OpenOffice.org 3 is here at last. It's an evolutionary change from 2, not a
| revolutionary one, and if deployed right it could be yet another nibble out
| of Microsoft's big Office cookie. The trick is how to get the word out.
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| For a long time, OO.o's depended on four things to gain traction: the fact
| that it's free; a small but significant set of corporate sponsors (Sun and
| IBM, mainly); frustrations with Microsoft Office -- mainly the price tag; and
| word of mouth. The last of those four, I'd put money down as being one of the
| most powerful: the word of someone you trust goes much further than
| advertising.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/10/getting_the_wor.html
OpenOffice.org: OpenOffice.org 3.0 breaks through 390,000 downloads in a day!
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| OpenOffice.org 3.0 in its first day in Italy has moved much more bytes
| (4,7TeraBytes), roughly corresponding to 580,000 Firefox’s downloads, while
| during the Firefox Guiness World Record “only” 320,000 downloads were
| actually done.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/10/14/openofficeorg-openofficeorg-30-breaks-through-390000-downloads-in-a-day/
OpenOffice.org 3.0 now in a browser with Ulteo!
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| The latest and full featured version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available
| through Ulteo.com using a web browser with a single click of a mouse. No
| download or installation process of the productivity suite is required.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/110311/index.html
OpenOffice.org and archiving
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| At the ODF Workshop last week, a number of the delegates were asking about
| the right way to handle archiving of their documents. Obviously ODF offers a
| baseline file format that promises long-term readability and editability, but
| the question remains of how best to handle files. With the release of
| OpenOffice.org 3.0, there are now two alternatives, and we heard at the
| conference of a third alternative coming in the future from ODF.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/openoffice_org_and_archiving
Office without the MS
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| I never took to MS Office 2007.
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| Having used earlier versions of MS Word for years, I was frustrated when I
| couldn’t easily find the menus or commands where they used to be on its
| newfangled ribbon interface. I also disliked that its applications wrote by
| default to a file format that was unreadable by earlier versions of MS
| Office.
|
| So this week, when I heard that a new version of my favorite free MS Office
| replacement, OpenOffice, would be released, I greeted the news with some
| reservations.
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_oct14_2008
OpenOffice.org overwhelmed by demand for version 3.0
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| Eager beavers keen to get their hands on the long-awaited arrival of version
| 3.0 of OpenOffice.org are currently unable to download the free, open
| source-flavoured suite of office apps because demand has broken the website.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/10/13/openoffice_org_download_website_dead/
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