The OpenOffice.org project is pleased to announce that the first public beta release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 is now available for download.




OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta is immediately available in English for Windows, GNU/Linux and Solaris. Additional platforms and localisations for Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Turkish, amongst others, will follow shortly.

The release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta coincides with the Danish LinuxForum 2005 and with the Open Source Days in Turkey. Both events demonstrate the gaining power of open source and especially the force for change OpenOffice.org 2.0 represents. We are honoured to be included in these important events.

This beta release is the result of many months work in expanding the functionality, performance and compatibility of the office suite. This intense effort has yielded impressive results including the addition of a new database module, implementation of the OASIS OpenDocument XML file format and a host of other new features and capabilities.

The public beta release is made available in order to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate this new major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production deployment at this stage.

Beta Availability

The beta version and it's source code can be downloaded from http://download.openoffice.org/2.0beta/index.html.

Feature Guide

A more detailed guide to the features can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/in dex.html.

Error and Bug Reporting

Users of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta release are encouraged to join the OpenOffice.org project and report any bugs, issues or errors at http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_is sues.html.

For ongoing updates regarding beta releases of OpenOffice.org 2.0, please subscribe to the OpenOffice.org Announce mailing list at http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html#general.

About OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a fully featured open-source productivity suite available as a free download for major computing platforms in over 45 languages. Data is stored in an XML file format standardized for office documents by the international body OASIS. OpenOffice.org is developed, supported, and promoted by an international community of volunteers with its main sponsor and primary contributor being Sun Microsystems. OpenOffice.org operates from http://www.openoffice.org/."

just tried two weks ago.

The interfaces is costumized like office XP, really nice for new users. specials button (buttons with inverted triangle) that enable you to get extra toolbar are gone. That buttons is really nice, sayang la buang gitu je. The document cnverter are not working properly.

I think the interface is exact clone to office xp, do we underestimated our own identity here?

Any improvement on performance? I.e., is loading OOo v.2.0 as fast as loading MS Office?

v2.0 is faster when opeinin microsoft Doc....

At last, it has its own database management software already. Too bad it only support its own format.

gnome_vfs integration still buggyyyyyyyyy....