[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“The Document Foundation’s LibreOffice, the OpenOffice
office suite fork, is on a winning streak. No sooner than Ubuntu
lets the world know that LibreOffice is its office suite of choice,
than the next day the first full, shipping version of the program,
LibreOffice 3.3, is released.“LibreOffice 3.3 includes numerous new features when compared to
its OpenOffice parent. To my mind, the most important of these for
modern office workers is that it has much better import and export
tools for Microsoft Office 2007 and above OpenXML formats. Love
them or hate them–I hate them myself–more and more
businesses are using these formats and being able to work with them
is becoming a business-critical feature. In addition, LibreOffice
can also now import Adobe PDF, Microsoft Works, and Lotus Word Pro
documents and has better WordPerfect document import
facilities.”