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Out of curiosity, I made a little graph comparing the number of downloads of OpenOffice.org 3.1 in the week after launch with the comparable figures for 3.0. As expected, there wasn’t the same level of excitement for a minor (.1) launch – and this time the download page didn’t crash under the strain However, I [...]
So, OpenOffice.org 3.1 with all its lovely new features is well and truly launched, with the official announcement last Thursday. I’ve reset the download counter on the Marketing Planet – as you can see from the detailed stats page, we were just a smidgeon short of 60 million downloads for OpenOffice.org 3.0. The first reviews [...]
If you follow any of the sites that track OpenOffice.org, it will not come as a complete surprise that the release of OpenOffice.org 3.1 is imminent. Despite our pleas, there are many bloggers who love to be the first with the news (even before it is news), which then leads to complaints from people that [...]
I’ve been using Ubuntu 8.10 with a few hacks quite happily on my Asus Eee PC 701. Ubuntu 9.04 has just come out, and included in the announcement was a note that a special Netbook Remix is available. So, being a glutton for punishment, I decided to wipe everything off the Eee and put in [...]
