First look: OpenOffice.org version 2.0 beta

Posted by dave on Mar 1, 2005 5:30 AM EDT
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OpenOffice.org has always been conservative with version numbers. Enough minor releases have boasted enough new features that the current release could easily be 3.0 or 4.0 instead of 1.1.4. Given this record, it's hardly surprising that version 2.0, for which beta code was set to be unveiled yesterday, amounts to a major rewrite of the software. Although key functionality remains largely intact, version 2.0 promises dozens, possibly hundreds, of changes. Many times during our testing of the first beta release, we felt we could almost have been looking at an entirely new piece of software.

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