Comments on: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Download

By: dekoninck

dekoninck — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:31:46 +0000

I do not really care about the ribbon UI, but the anti-alias in the Impress – that would be the killer feature…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:59:45 +0000

Maybe the UI refresh is yet to be added? (hopes)

At this stage it is doubtful. It's expected to be released in a few months, and there will not be a revolutionary interface change that can successfully be done in that period of time. Considering the app already received new icons I don't think it will be much more revamped than that.

RG wrote:

When I first read the review (that is linked in daily downloads now) I was really happy about the PIM addition. I know its not a big deal to use add-ons but why not have the PIM standard? ‘bloat’ is the software equivalent of ‘liberal’ these days, people use the word to blast feature rich applications.

I'm not sure if they have any intentions on integrating that into the suite yet. They now reference Thunderbird and Lightning on the OpenOffice page as a great tool that works well with the suite, but no word as to whether it will become integrated.

Lashiec wrote:

What about those planned performance improvements?

Maybe there are some performance improvements? They didn't explicitly list any, but it could just part of the bug fixes. Have you tried it to see if it runs any faster?

By: Lashiec

Lashiec — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:21:48 +0000

*sigh*, no interface update again. What about those planned performance improvements?

By: Amak

Amak — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:47:53 +0000

Michael Dobrofsky wrote:

Maybe the UI refresh is yet to be added? (hopes)

Let's hope so. Only thing keeping me from switching away from M$ Office. I'm sure once they update it, many will flock to it:D

By: RG

RG — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:47:09 +0000

When I first read the review (that is linked in daily downloads now) I was really happy about the PIM addition. I know its not a big deal to use add-ons but why not have the PIM standard? ‘bloat’ is the software equivalent of ‘liberal’ these days, people use the word to blast feature rich applications.

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:29:14 +0000

Maybe the UI refresh is yet to be added? (hopes)

By: Amak

Amak — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:09:39 +0000

I used Open Office and it is a great competitor to M$ Office. Only place it’s lacking in is the UI…reminds me of Windows 98:\

By: Mohan

Mohan — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:29:33 +0000

Yeah I downloaded OO 3.0 this morning and played around with it. It was pretty good and stable but I am one those people who were expected a change in the UI. But the Charts seems to have glossy stuff in it, hopefully it would carry over to the other programs.