OpenOffice, everyone’s favorite free software office suite, released version 3.1 recently. It seems like only yesterday I was downloading StarOffice, what later became OpenOffice. The OO.org team keeps plugging away, and the fact that they’ve released such a comprehensive office suite is a real testament to the power of open source development. There are lots of new improvements in this latest release, and while it’s not a night-and-day improvement over previous iterations, it is a sufficient improvement to justify an upgrade.
From the OpenOffice.org 3.1 New Features list:
- 1 General
- 2 Writer
- 3 Calc
- 4 Chart
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The full technical release notes containing a list of features and integrated child workspaces can be read here.
The Register has a decent overview of the new features, too.
