OpenOffice2.0 officially released

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OpenOffice 2.0 official version was officially released. as a global cross-platform office software, OpenOffice 2.0 is the most powerful open-source software challenging Microsoft Office.
  
OpenOffice.org includes a word processing software, spreadsheet software, and magic lamp production software. Version 2.0 also adds database software. The project organizer originally planned to release a new version last week to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the open-source project. However, a vulnerability found at the last time broke the original plan.
  
"OpenOffice.org will be an unprecedented Office software package," said Jonathan Schwartz, president of SUN, one of the project's sponsors. "Other sponsors of the project include RedHat, Novell, Intel, Propylon, and some independent developers.
  
So far, OpenOffice has downloaded 50 million times, but it has become the main competitor of Microsoft Office, just recently. Compared with Microsoft Office's own format, OpenOffice.org adopts the standardized open document format ).
  
Although Microsoft also added support for open source file PDF in the Office12 release, Steven Sinofsky, vice president of Microsoft, said earlier this month that Microsoft would not consider opening the document format, the reason is that the user has no requirements for this.
  
OpenOffice can run on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and other systems. Currently, programmers are writing the Apple system version.
  
Some new features of OpenOffice 2.0 include:
  
The user interface can be divided into multiple-bar views, such as the tool area and work area. The toolbar can be customized;
  
When you know the password, you can lay down the encrypted Microsoft Office documents;
  
Added the sealing and merging function;
  
PDF documents can be output;
  
The workbook program supports 65,536 rows of tables, which is the same as that of Microsoft Excel;
  
You can add a digital signature to a document.
  
The official version of OpenOffice 2.0 was originally released on the fifth anniversary of the founding of OpenOffice.org on December 31, October 13. However, bugs found at the last time caused release delay.
  
Click here to go to the official download page.

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