Tuesday, June 21st, 2005, 3:55 am
Open Office 2
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ome immensely powerful features will be included in OpenOffice.org version 2. I recently attended a live demonstration; therein it was shown that regular expressions are included in the package, along with other features that make OO.org more attractive than its commercial equivalent — Microsoft Office.
Open Office is composed almost purely of C/C++, which makes it fast. According to one source, Open Office performs better than a recent Office release.
The CPU load when closing and opening Writer (OO.org) and Word (Office)
June 21st, 2005 at 7:57 am
Always nice to know Microsoft are on the way down!
June 21st, 2005 at 12:58 pm
I am definately looking foward to the new release, I have been using 1.9 Beta for a while now and it runs pretty fast. My only complaints are that the Style and Formatting toolbar isn’t dockable and the quality of suggestions for mis-spelt words (which isn’t even close to MS Words).
Any idea when 2.0 is planned for?
June 22nd, 2005 at 2:56 pm
A fellow LUGer , who is in the OO.org Documentation Team, mentioned the date. It was a matter of months at the time, perhaps 1 or 2 months.
I personally use LATEX and only run OO.org a few times a year when a text editor cannot not deal with
.docfiles properly enough.