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[Antony]

According to Computerworld, an OS X-native version of OpenOffice.org (version 3.0) may finally be ready in September 2008.

OpenOffice.org has long had a Mac version, but that requires users to have X11 installed. (X11 is an optional component when installing Apple OS X 10.4.) Most users consider that a kludgy, unaesthetic solution.

A native Aqua version of OpenOffice.org called NeoOffice is currently available, but it is created by open-source developers unaffiliated with OpenOffice.org.

OpenOffice.org discontinued its Aqua port in 2003, but restarted the project in February. And in May 2007, OpenOffice.org's chief supporter, Sun Microsystems Inc., assigned two employee programmers to help.

Besides the Aqua port, version 3.0 of OpenOffice is expected to include a filter to import files saved in Microsoft Office 2007's Open XML document format, a report designer, and more language versions.

For more detail, please refer to Mac OS X version of OpenOffice slated for next September (Computerworld)

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[Antony]

On 19th March, the OpenOffice.org Mac Porting team have released the third snapshot of Aqua version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X. This snapshot brings a number of improvements including using native print dialogue, various bugs, crashes, performance and cosmetic improvements.

For detail about this release, please refer to this OpenOffice.org page.

If you are ready to try it, you can download OpenOffice.org Aqua (Development Preview).

OpenOffice.org Aqua requires Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Making a backup of any documents used in OpenOffice.org Aqua is recommended. Leopard's Time Machine is a great tool for this task.

The OpenOffice.org Mac Porting Project aims to port OpenOffice.org to run on Mac OS X natively without X11.

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