Check out the new third version of OpenOffice

October 13, has released new, third version of the software package OpenOffice, which is the principal competitor and free Microsoft Office. He supported the format OpenDocument 1.2, as well as the ability to import documents Microsoft Office 2007. Work on it lasted three years.

In addition, OpenOffice 3.0 has learned to work on a Mac (it also supports Windows and system based on the kernel Linux). Earlier, his run on that platform needed to support the package layout for the X11.

The package also improved display charts four times increased the maximum number of columns in the tables in the word processor is added opportunity to display for editing multiple pages at once.

Size distribution to the Russian version of OpenOffice for Windows is about 140 megabytes. Demand for the new batch of users was so great that access to the site proved difficult.