(Credit: OpenOffice.org)

Much as I like the idea behind OpenOffice, I’ve never particularly liked the reality. Until now.

As a Mac user, I’ve long relied on Patrick Luby and the NeoOffice team to deliver the power of OpenOffice in a Mac-friendly UI (the native version of OpenOffice has always required the ugly and clunky X11). This day, however, I downloaded OpenOffice Aqua Beta, and find that my old complaints are just that…old.

One of my biggest peeves? OpenOffice for Mac used to lack embedded video support. Not anymore. I was easily able to drop my favorite video clips into a presentation I had just converted from PowerPoint.

The conversion? Perfect. While I doubt OO.org will be able to perfectly convert all of my files, I don’t really anticipate it to do so: Ever tried converting your files between different versions of Microsoft Office? Good luck on finding perfection.

… Source:The Open Road

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