Open Office 3.0 officially released today! –Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Agent Shane O’Gorman
Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate with Agent and Realtor® Shane O’Gorman
I was originally intending to write a post about the new release but there is a bit of a snag. It seems the release has become so overwhelmingly popular that their website keeps crashing. I am unable to download a copy and unable to find an official press release for the software. I have been testing different release candidates and I can say that you are safe installing Microsoft Office for good. I have no intention of ever installing that software again.
So here is news of the server crash instead!
OpenOffice 3.0 release hit by server crash
The OpenOffice.org servers have crashed, apparently under the weight of demand for the latest version of the open-source office productivity suite.
OpenOffice 3.0 was uploaded to the organisation’s servers at 10am BST on Monday. According to OpenOffice.org’s marketing lead, John McCreesh, “the servers seem to have collapsed under the load” of download requests.
McCreesh pointed out that the “vast majority” of downloads of the suite take place through local mirrors, but said “the fact that our central site can’t even run the bouncer [to divert requests to those local mirrors] must mean it’s… our biggest-ever download”.
“We’ve never had this kind of outage before,” McCreesh added. At the time of writing (mid-afternoon Monday), the servers were still not back up.
OpenOffice 3.0 is a significant update to the suite, which includes free, community-led alternatives to Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel. The new version includes native Mac OS X support for the first time, and is also the first iteration of OpenOffice to be able to read the .docx Office Open XML (OOXML) documents that are created in Office 2007. OOXML is the chief rival to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) specification that has been used in OpenOffice for some time.
As you can see the biggest news is that it is Mac compatible and Office 2007 compatible! So you can use this on any platform. It was funny seeing the server crash because the first article I read today warned of the crash and was wondering why they would host the software themselves. I guess hindsight is 20/20.
OpenOffice.org 3.0 officially released
Then scroll down to the comments to see the early speculation. It is no wonder because many people in the industry have been patiently waiting this release for years. It is the first time that I am aware of that a free product could truly replace Microsoft Office and not only replace, be better. It took me 30 seconds to switch from using Word to Writer. Give it a try, I promise you wont be sorry!
