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Word - we dropped the ball

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Aloone_Jonez:
It looks like MS Office has been fixed so there's no big deal.
http://www.king5.com/news/business/79912212.html

I also found a decent discussion on another forum.
http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33313

I like the idea of banning software patents, at least for very minor "innovations" which don't effect interoperability and that real patents should have to have a real working prototype before being accepted.

Does anyone know when OpenOffice.org 3.2 is going to be released?

I keep being tempted to try out the release candidate but I always try to stick with stable software and avoid beta where ever possible. I'll probably go with go-oo or OxiygenOffice next anyway.

What do you lot think of the ribbon interface for MS Office?

I've seen screenshots of ribbon and don't I like it, it seems to take up too much room on the screen. Wikipedia says that OOo 3.3 is going to have a similar interface. I hope it's going to be good.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Impress_Prototype.png

Aloone_Jonez:
I've been using Go-OO ever since 3.2 came out and I'm pretty pleased with it. It's much faster than OpenOffice which I now deem to be shit. The only bug I've noticed is that the windows sometimes refuse to close which can be a pain, I don't know whether this bug is common to the original OO.o but I'm now upgrading to 3.2.13 in the hope it's been fixed.

I don't see why people use the original version, not when there's a much better one available, probably because of lack of marketing.

EDIT:
It appears that I was currently using the most up to date version so I've needlessly uninstalled and reinstalled it.:(

Oh well, hopefully the bug will be fixed in the next version.

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