I had heard rumor a few months ago that OpenOffice was going to be native Mac soon, without having to run X11 and then the news dried up. Today it was announced that next month the new native Mac OpenOffice would become available.

While I think this is fantastic news, I feel a bit sad for the NeoOffice group who has been doing such great work 'porting' OpenOffice to the Mac. I would sure think that most people will just use OpenOffice now that it won't require X11.

I'll certainly try out OpenOffice and run with the one I like better.

Here are many screenshots of the new OpenOffice for Mac.

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