OpenOffice 2.2 released

“The OpenOffice.org Community on March 29 announced the release of a major upgrade to OpenOffice: version 2.2. The group claims that with upgrades to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software, the free office suite provides a real alternative to Microsoft’s recently-released Office 2007 product. Current users of older versions of Microsoft Office will find OpenOffice 2.2 to be an easier upgrade path than Office 2007, the group suggests. Overall, version 2.2 should appear better to users thanks to its support for kerning, a technique that improves the appearance of text written in proportional fonts; kerning is now enabled by default…” (Read full article here)

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