On Monday OpenOffice 3.0 will be released.

UPDATE  14/10/2008

OpenOffice has now been formerly released. You can now download it from their website at http://www.openoffice.org at the moment there is heavy demand for the new version.

"This latest suite includes support for the latest Microsoft Office Word format (.docx), documents saved in the latest version of Microsoft’s Office suite, 2007 (or 2008 on Mac OS X) can now be opened in OpenOffice. Zooming similar to that available in Microsoft Office 2007 is available as well as a new Start Center and status bar. Even rudimentary support for VBA is included. As per usual, OpenOffice allows you to export your documents to PDF, something that Microsoft Office lacks.

In the current climate of ‘less is more’ referring to cloud computing, for instance Google’s online office suite Google Docs; OpenOffice holds an almost perfect balance between features and simplicity. OpenOffice uses less than 200 MB of your hard drive with a complete install while a Microsoft Office 2007 installation with similar features will hover nearer the 1,500 MB mark."

If you can't wait until Monday Open Office have already uploaded the new version to their mirror site so you can download a copy from the link below

http://openoffice.mirrors.tds.net/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/