samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 04 2008 | office, open source, mac osx, software
"The free office suite OpenOffice is now offering a beta of version 3.0 for testing and it's easier than ever for Mac owners to start using it right away. "
And still just as ugly, particularly on OSX. I wish they'd acknowledge that 1 interface for all platforms just doesn't work for applications more complicated than a few buttons. Even if they get the looks right (which they haven't), there are still subtle differences in UI guidelines.
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 31 2007 | office, microsoft, open source
"ODF has been criticised due to technical limitations imposed on sharing them with Microsoft Office applications, while the soon to be released compound document format (CDF) is said to be better suited to increasingly prevalent Web born documents and Web 2.0 applications. "We can't meet our market requirements with OpenDocument," said Gary Edwards who started the OpenDocument Foundation last year. "The truth is OpenDocument was never designed to meet market requirements.""
Wow, this is pretty explosive stuff, given the situation between ODF and Microsoft's OOXML. So much for an ODF standard paradise - now stop the crazy cat fights!
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