OpenOffice.org team has released the beta version of OpenOffice 3.0. You can download the beta version of OpenOffice 3.0 from here. Here are the new features or additions to OpenOffice 3.0.
Mac OS X support without the need for X11. Thus, OpenOffice.org behaves like any other Aqua application.
OpenOffice.org 3.0 supports the features of the upcoming version [...]
ISO officially announced today that Microsoft’s OOXML got the necessary vote for approval as a standard. Though the news was out 2 days back, it was made official by ISO today. If you were following the news for the last few days, you might have understood that the votes were rigged and people were bribed [...]
India will vote against Microsoft’s OOXML being adopted as a standard by the Geneva-based international standards body, ISO, where representatives of member countries are slated to decide on the matter by March 29. The decision was taken at a standards committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards.
As expected, all the Indian IT companies sucked up [...]
According to Ars Technica, OpenDocument Foundation has decided to end its support for OASIS’s OpenDocument Format (ODF) and instead support W3C’s Compound Document Format (CDF), which is currently described in the Web Integration Compound Document Core 1.0 draft.
The CDF is intended to support integrated use of multiple markup languages and seems primarily based on on [...]