Tag: NEOOFFICE

OpenOffice.org is finally getting native Mac OS X support. The open source office suit has been available for Windows and Linux for years. And since 2005, you've been able to run OpenOffice.org on OS X, but you needed to install the resource-intensive X11 environment to get it working. This summer, the development team offered the first alpha of a native version of OpenOffice.org for OS X. In ...

As long as we're talking about word processors that have come a long way since we last talked about them: Mac users should sit up and take note: NeoOffice 2.1 arrives on March 27th. NeoOffice is a OS X port of OppenOffice.org by a group of developers who have thought from the beginning that the Main OO.o team was taking the wrong tack in offering X-11 support on the Mac. Early NeoOffice releases ...

Considering the slow start that it got, I'm somewhat surprised that NeoOffice, the Mac-native port of OpenOffice.org, has hit version 2.0 just a year after the project's first official release. While OpenOffice.org runs on OS X, NeoOffice comes with a bundle of Mac-specific features like Finder and Mail.app integration, Aqua menus, native drag-and-drop support, and OS X font support. Back in ...