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OpenDocument Format support in Microsoft Office is here

April 29, 2009 – 9:38 am

Ther is an update to this post here. As mentioned in the previous post Microsoft Office 2007 Service pack 2 (SP2) would include support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) and would be released 28th April and here it is – Microsoft Download. SP2 is a 290MB download so you do not want to be on a [...]

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OpenOffice.org release 3.01 open source free equivalent to Microsoft Office

February 6, 2009 – 5:40 pm

The release of of OpenOffice.org 3.0, the free and open source equivalent to Microsoft Office, in October 2008 caused much excitement in the open source world with over 3 million downloads in the first week alone. The landmark release contained many new features and improved Microsoft Office document support including support for viewing .docx and [...]

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