Thursday, October 20, 2005

OpenOffice celebrates turning 2.0

OpenOffice celebrates turning 2.0
Nearly 50 million copies of OpenOffice have been downloaded, but only recently has the software become a more serious threat to long-dominant Microsoft Office. Version 2.0 brings some significant new features, and Google has pledged to help distribute OpenOffice through a high-profile pact with Sun. But perhaps more significant, OpenOffice.org uses the standardized OpenDocument format that stands in stark contrast to Microsoft's proprietary formats.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Maybe it'll kick Microsoft into giving out MS Office to the CS students. They give every other software except that.