Upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 supports Microsoft OpenXML (docx) out of the box
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The popular Free and Open Source Office application, OpenOffice.org is going to have OpenXML (*.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx) support by default. Scheduled to be release on September 2008, OpenOffice.org 3.0 packs a lot of features you might find interesting :
- Import PDF files support. PDF documents can be edited in Writer
- Official Mac OS support, now includes native “Aqua” interface
- Multiple page view in Writer
- Error bars in OpenOffice.org charts
- Supports OpenDocument 1.2 specification
The BETA is scheduled to be released on April 30th, 2008. For the time being, OpenOffice.org 2.x users can open Microsoft OpenXML files (*.docx, *.xlsx) using odf import filters
Thanks to Andrew Ziem for the original article, OpenOffice.org 3.0 new features, an early look
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April 4th, 2008 at 12:23 am
If OO.o supports OOXML out of the box, won’t this diminish any reason for people to use ODF? I mean MS will not support ODF out of the box, will they? So why will users not just use a standard that’s more widely supported?