OpenOffice 3 beta
I’ve been using OpenOffice 3 beta for a while now and I must say it’s much better then 2.4. I contains some of the features I’ve always liked in MS Office, like comments at the side of the document and language selection. Both were pretty crappy in 2.4… I also have the feeling that the MS Word file format support has improved a bit, at least the bug that a document becomes read only when you add an index (how do you build a bug like that???) has been fixed.
There is still room for improvement. For example: it’s still not possible to accept changes with the right mouse key. This would really make merging changes much easier then it is now.
I hope that the support of the ODF format in MS Office will come fast, then I can just send ODF document to my collegues and clients. That would really make life much better, finally kill that idiotic MS Word format!