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Finally, Open Office Development with Macs in Mind

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Open Office is one of the fantastic programs that has come out of the whole Open Source software movement. I love it - it’s a fantastic program set to use in place of Microsuck Office, and it’s developed for free. Up until now the version of Open Office for Mac has lagged behind the windows version in features and updates. According to today’s news, that will happen no more. Sun, creators of the Open Office suite, have decided to put more effort and energy into developing Open Office for Macs.

The Open Office for Mac OS X will have a full Aqua interface to better match with the look and feel of OS X that we’ve all come to love. The last incarnation of Open Office for Mac ran on Apple’s X11 - a version of the windows server interface that had to be installed from the Mac OS disks as an extra. After that they tried Java as an interface, but neither the X11 or JAva version of Open Office worked smoothly on Macs. The development of a native Open Office application for Mac is huge news, and will be well received by the Apple community who have been waiting for a viable alternative to Microsuck Office.

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Posted in MacBook, Software, iMac on May 3rd, 2007

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