Tuesday, October 14, 2008

OpenOffice 3.0 - finally!



Gosh. First the launch date was set to 31th of September. I usually forget these sort of things. But this time I actually held myself up to date. At the given date, the date following the message "Preliminary release date for OpenOffice3 is currently..." had changed. Now it was the 7th of October. Aaah. Anyways, nothing more to do, but to wait. So, the 7th was the day of our flight, so I hadn't time to check it out then. However, the following day I of course see that the date is once again pushed forward. 13th of October. Aaawergh! So, yesterday I missed out on checking, being pretty sure about another postpone, anyways. Today, however, I thought I'd do best in checking the site out. Strangely, I cannot get through. Page errors. It then struck me. This is it. Page overload, of course. The release is a fact. Now, around half an hour later, I finally get in to their international site; to receive this message:

Apologies - our website is struggling to cope with the unprecedented
demand for the new release 3.0 of OpenOffice.org. The technical teams are
trying to come up with a solution.

Thank you for your patience.


However, they provide me with fully functional download links to the Win32 installer. Just great. So, I'm currently downloading it. Can't wait to see if there's any major updates in the appearance.

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