OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released today. The demand was so great there were problems with the site. Give it a couple of days before you download the new version and hopefully the rush has subsided.

There are apparently quite a few new things in this version, one being compatibility with M$ Office 2007 format.

I am running this version on OS X 10.5 and the final release is a bit quicker than the original public Beta. However, it’s no Audi R8.

I was flicking through some of the online discussions and found that by disabling the Java runtime environment you can speed up the whole app quite significantly. Jump into preferences and click on the Java option, then remove the tick.

So far it’s looking good and I’m glad it’s finally out of Beta.

I’ll be interested to see how it goes on Ubuntu, but I’ll wait for the official release in the updates for that one.

Tags: OS X, ubuntu