Smaller PowerPoint files can be opened with Impress, but require a bit of reformatting to look acceptable. From a quick test this morning, it seems to work, at least with Word. OOo 2.0 can also open and save Microsoft Office documents, including password-protected ones if the password is known. That leaves Microsoft Office and its proprietary XML format out in the cold for now. OpenDocument is an open-standard XML format that was recently in the news when the state of Massachusetts mandated the use of open formats for document exchange effective January 1, 2007. 2.0's biggest selling point may be its use of OpenDocument as its default file format. FreeBSD, Linux PPC, and Mac OS X are still on version 1.1 and that will only run on Mac OS X under X11. OOo 2.0 currently supports Windows, x86 flavors of Linux, and Solaris for both x86 and SPARC. New to version 2.0 is Base, a database application which joins Calc (spreadsheet), Draw (a vector drawing program), Math (mathematical function creator), Impress (for presentations), and Writer (word processor).
The one-week delay was caused by some last-minute bug squashing. 2.0 has been released a week after the fifth anniversary of its birth as an open-source project. It's a week later than expected, but it's here.
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