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OpenOffice has announced that OpenOffice 3 is now available.

In addition to being the first version of the world's most-popular open-source alternative to MS Office to be OS X native, features are said to include:

• ODF 1.2 Support

• Microsoft Office 2007 Import Filters

• Includes Solver component which allows solving optimization problems

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• Support for displaying custom error bars and regression equations

• Improved Crop Feature in Draw and Impress

• Requires a Intel Mac, PPC not supported

Get your copy of OpenOffice 3 here (???MB). Or, you might try OpenOffice's P2P download link.

As of this writing, both downloads were unresponsive.

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Reader Comments

There is a Mac PPC version. I'm using it right now. Posted by Guest Poster #1 on 10/13/08 11:23 AM There is a Mac PPC version. I'm using it right now. Posted by Guest Poster #1 on 10/13/08 11:24 AM The version of open office offered for download for PPC is 2.4.1, not version 3. Open Office PPC Posted by Guest Poster #3 on 10/13/08 3:06 PM So that would be ... www.NeoOffice.org which has been Mac OS X native for more than a year. AND has versions for Intel and PPC. Glad that OOo base code has caught up. I agree that OOo is the BEST alternative to MS Office. Heck, it's my first choice, not just an alternative. Long live OOo. FiRST version of the world's most-popular OSS alternative to MS Office to be OS X nat Posted by Guest Poster #4 on 10/13/08 3:47 PM So that would be ... www.NeoOffice.org which has been Mac OS X native for more than a year. AND has versions for Intel and PPC. Glad that OOo base code has caught up. I agree that OOo is the BEST alternative to MS Office. Heck, it's my first choice, not just an alternative. Long live OOo. FiRST version of the world's most-popular OSS alternative to MS Office to be OS X nat Posted by Guest Poster #4 on 10/13/08 3:48 PM Sorry, Spam blocker looked "blank" the first time. Sorry for the Dup post ;-{ Sorry for Dup. post Posted by Guest Poster #3 on 10/13/08 4:25 PM By the OOo power vested in me, you are forgiven. Posted by Guest Poster #7 on 10/13/08 10:32 PM

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