The developers of the popular
OpenOffice.org project
announced today that version 3.0 of the open source productivity suite has
officially been released. This version includes some import new features like
native Mac OS X compatibility and support for version 1.2 of the OpenDocument
Format standard. It also introduces support for reading files in Microsoft's
Office Open XML (OOXML) format, which is used as the default in Microsoft Office
2007. The new version offers some aesthetic enhancements and usability
improvements, including a new icon set that makes the user interface cleaner and
a convenient slider control for adjusting page zoom. OpenOffice.org 3.0 also has
a new launcher interface, improved support for annotations, and a handful of
other new features.