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Open source office suite KOffice hits 2.0, gets Firefox-like addon support
by Brad Linder May 29th 2009 at 10:00AM
This week the KOffice team released a preview of KOffice 2. It's not really aimed at end users yet, and KOffice 2.0 is actually missing some of the features found in KOffice 1.6. Most of those features will return in versions 2.1 or 2.2. But the new version does have a number of new features, including:
- Better integration between applications
- New GUI designed to work with widescreen monitors
- Support for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Native support for OpenDocument Format
KOffice includes a word processor, spreadsheet utility, presentation manager, project management softwre, a vector graphcis editor and a raster graphics editor.
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alex1jam said 2:20PM on 5-29-2009
Yea is going to become better than openoffice in a year by just reading this.
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joem said 2:06PM on 5-31-2009
I think you may have forgotten a link to the KOffice site itself: http://www.koffice.org
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Patrick said 8:19AM on 6-15-2009
Yeah but where is the database part ? all i see is spreadsheet, word processor, presentation etc.
I haven't seen a replacement for Access on linux yet, i heard of filemaker for Mac, but i don't have a mac, can anybody point to the right direction for this ?
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