Google will help distribute OpenOffice, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said earlier in October. Its file format, in contrast to the proprietary ones used by Microsoft, is being standardized as OpenDocument, a format endorsed by the state of Massachusetts. Though Microsoft's rival software remains dominant, OpenOffice can count significant victories. Unless any other serious problems are found, version 2.0 should be released next week, Suarez-Potts said. The bug is fixed in a new release candidate that should hit download sites Friday, he said. Instead of unveiling the final version of an extensive revamp, though, OpenOffice developers stamped out a simple but significant bug that caused some opaque graphics elements to appear incorrectly as transparent, said Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager for the project. That day brought a new competitive front against the dominance of Microsoft Office, but only relatively recently has OpenOffice picked up significant steam. The release date had been timed for Thursday, half a decade after Sun Microsystems launched the project. The fifth anniversary of the launch seemed like a good day to release version 2.0 of the open-source office software suite, but a last-minute bug forced a delay.
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