You will be alerted of updates to OpenOffice if you signed up to the announcement mailing list. (might be [EMAIL PROTECTED])
If you are looking for announcements about StarOffice (Suns commercial equivalent of OpenOffice) or other Sun Microsystem products you may need to sign up to another mailing list. There will probably be a bit of activity on this user mailing list of OpenOffice on the day and immediatly after the release of any updates so that you become aware that an update for OpenOffice exists. having just checked the release schedule for OpenOffice 2.4 (The Next Update) http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease24 It looks like the release is now set for 20 March 2008. Cameron Smith On 16/03/2008, RICHARD IWANOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Users: > I started to use the Open Office suite last month and was glad to > contribute $49.00 went I downloaded the program. Open Office is terrific, > much better then MS Office (which I have used for about 10 years). However, > last Saturday, March 8, 2008 my hard drive crashed due to a corruption in > the Windows XP operating system and during servicing the Open Office program > was not backed up and therefore I lost the program. Today, March 15, 2008 I > downloaded Open Office 2.3.1and installed it on my system. My question > is- will I still be notified of Open Office updates and new products from > Sun Microsystems even though this second download was free? When I > downloaded the program last month and contributed toward its development the > site informed me that updates and new products would be sent to my email > address automatically. Please let me know if this is still valid. > Thank you. > > Cordially, > Richard E. Iwanowski > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
