At long last Open Office is on the Mac & Aqua! This means that Open Office is now fully native/supported on the mac. No more X11 junk, rejoice I say rejoice! To be fair Neo Office has been my trusty low end word processor for awhile now. It has been a valuable tool opening Microsoft Office files and saving in the .odt open format, the 2007 .doc and even the new 2008 .docX format which is impressive for a program that is free and can be used commercially. Truth be told Open Office does not really have anything more to offer in comparison to Neo Office that I am aware of at the moment. They are virtually identical except in the splash screen. But I feel that Neo Office was created to fill a need that Open Office was unable to fulfill. Now that is no longer necessary as Open Office has finally got it's act together on the Mac platform. It's nice knowing that I can use just one open-source cross platform program -be it Windows or Mac, or even Linux, for anything Office related.
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