Editions are also available for a variety of different operating systems.

Another interesting feature is Solver, a solution engine for combinatorial optimization problems that is a strong selling point for the commercial Excel package from Microsoft.

This version is an important milestone release and could help boost the program’s market share, particularly on Mac OS X, where it now provides a much higher level of platform integration; but it is once again available in PC and Linux as well.

Returning to the OS X, these changes are also said to aid in performance and stability, and introduce support for Mac OS X’s accessibility APIs, which primarily help people with little to no eyesight. The Mac version is now native and no longer requires the Unix X11 environment.

The release had originally been scheduled for mid September. OpenOffice (163 MB) for Mac requires OS X Tiger or later and an Intel Mac. The installer of OpenOffice.org 3.0 for Windows is only about 140MB in size but it takes a little bit longer to install.

To download OpenOffice 3.0 follow this link http://www.openoffice.org/

From OpenOffice.org: Our website is struggling to cope with the unprecedented demand for the new release 3.0 of OpenOffice.org. The technical teams are trying to come up with a solution.

The DNS patch didn’t patch anything, at least on the client side according to researchers.

It’s back to the drawing board for Apple. I am sure a lot of PC users are chuckling at their counterpart about the latest problems with the Mac OS X. It’s time for that PC versus Mac commercial to take revenge on Mac.

“The difficult news this morning is that we thought we were getting a patch, but we haven’t gotten anything,” said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security Inc.

Storms’ tests confirmed that even after Apple’s update was applied, systems running the client version of Mac OS X were still incrementing ports, not randomizing them, as should have been the case if the fix had addressed the flaw.

That’s not good. Last week, after speculation about the DNS vulnerability essentially confirmed its technical details, exploit code appeared. This week, attacks began against unpatched DNS servers, with at least one confirmed case reported.