Download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0

The final release of version 4.1.0 of OpenOffice has been released. This open source office suite started in 1984 as StarOffice. In 1999 it came into the hands of Sun Microsystems and then in 2010 it ended up with Oracle. After a number of developers switched to LibreOffice out of dissatisfaction with how Oracle managed this project, the source code was eventually donated to the Apache Software Foundation. OpenOffice comes with a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet program (Calc), a presentation program (Impress), a drawing program (Draw), a database program (Base) and a program for creating scientific notations (Formula). Detailed information about the changes in version 4.1 can here are found, these are briefly the most important changes:

New Features

• Comments/Annotations on text ranges
• Support for iAccessible2

Improvements/Enhancements

• In-place editing of Input Fields
• Interactive Crop Feature
• Import Picture from File and Drag & Drop of Graphic Data
• Load/Import of 3D Charts improved
• Improved Graphic Modifications/Filters for Vector Graphics
• Keep original Graphic Data when ever possible
• Clipboard enhancements for Graphic Content
• Other Improvements/Enhancements
  • Seamonkey replaced by NSS (“Network Security Services”)