Bug mars OpenOffice's big day
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The fifth anniversary of the OpenOffice.org launch seemed like a good day to release version 2.0 of the open-source office software suite, but a last-minute bug has forced a delay.
The release date had been timed for Thursday, half a decade after Sun Microsystems launched the OpenOffice.org project. That day brought a new competitive front against the dominance of Microsoft Office, but only relatively recently has OpenOffice picked up significant steam.
Instead of unveiling the final version of an extensive revamp, though, OpenOffice developers stamped out a simple but significant bug that caused some opaque graphics elements to appear incorrectly as transparent, said Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager for the project. The bug is fixed in a new release candidate that should hit download sites on Friday, he said.
Unless any other serious problems are found, version 2.0 should be released next week, Suarez-Potts said.
The fifth anniversary of the OpenOffice.org launch seemed like a good day to release version 2.0 of the open-source office software suite, but a last-minute bug has forced a delay.
The release date had been timed for Thursday, half a decade after Sun Microsystems launched the OpenOffice.org project. That day brought a new competitive front against the dominance of Microsoft Office, but only relatively recently has OpenOffice picked up significant steam.
Instead of unveiling the final version of an extensive revamp, though, OpenOffice developers stamped out a simple but significant bug that caused some opaque graphics elements to appear incorrectly as transparent, said Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager for the project. The bug is fixed in a new release candidate that should hit download sites on Friday, he said.
Unless any other serious problems are found, version 2.0 should be released next week, Suarez-Potts said.
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