Sun Microsystems has released its latest version on 13th October 2008 that is commonly known as Openoffice.org 3.0
In today’s advancing world computers play an essential role. They have become a major part of our every day life. Different types of computers are now used in different places such as airports, banks, hospitals, schools, post offices and even at the neighborhood grocery store. Gone are those days when only using a computer was considered a big deal .In order to be a part of the competitive and the crowded world of today you don’t only need to know computer basics but you are required to handle them like a pro. So if in case you want to show your commitment and expertise you can get a number of certifications of the latest software available in the markets which will help you get an edge over others for getting jobs and if already employed getting promotions. At the present time there are a number of office application suits or software suits available for personal or business use.
Openoffice.org is one of the popular cross platform office application suite available at the present time. Openoffice.org is used on a number of different computer operating systems such as Windows 95, windows 98 ME, windows 2000, windows vista, Mac OS 10.2, Mac OS 10.3, Mac OS 10.4 (PowerPC) and Mac OS 10.4 (Intel). It is informally referred to as openoffice but due to the name openoffice is a trademark that is held by another party, it is formally known as openoffice.org. Openoffice.org is now used in almost every part of the world, it is available in more then eighteen different languages for the convenience of its users. It was actually derived from Staroffice (an office suite developed by StarDivision). Later versions of Staroffice are based upon openoffice with a number of additional proprietary components. Openoffice.org was then acquired by a Sun Microsystems in the year 1999. Then in the mid of 2000 the source code of the suite was released with the aim to reduce the dominant market share of Microsoft office by offering a free as well as high quality alternative.
ISO standard (ODF) OpenDocument Format is the defult file format of openoffice.org for data interchange, Openoffice.org also supports some other formats such as Microsoft office 97 – 2003 formats, Microsoft office 2007-format etc. Sun Microsystems has released its latest version on 13th October 2008 that is commonly known as Openoffice.org 3.0. The latest version of openoffice has a number of amazing features such as the ability to import documents from other software suits such as Microsoft Office 2007. It also offers improved support for VBA macros and a native port for Mac OS x. Openoffice.org 3.0 also provides support for the new ODF 1.2 document format.
In order to get more information about Sun Microsystems and openoffice.org you can log on to the internet. There are a number of websites that contain useful information about functions and features offered by openoffice.org. You can also log on to the official website of openoffice.org in you want to have more information. Apart from the internet there are also a number of computer and IT related institutions that are offering courses and certifications in different types of software and application suits. If you want to have openoffice.org for your personal or office use then you can visit local market for this purpose, you can easily get openoffice.org CD or DVD from any CD shop or you can also download openoffice from a number of websites.
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