![]() OpenOffice developers are just nearing completion of the OpenOffice 1.1 update, with version 2.0 not expected until the first quarter of 2005. As a result, project leaders have halted work on the OS X edition until version 2.0 of the main Windows/Linux version of OpenOffice is ready. But Mac users have to make do with a lightly tweaked version of the Unix software that runs in OS X's X11 Unix-compatibility environment.Īccording to the update, the OS X translation has proven more complex and developer resources more limited than expected. ![]() ![]() The software is available for the Windows and Linux operating systems and for several version of Unix. OpenOffice is a free, open-source collection of basic office applications-word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program-based on Sun Microsystems' StarOffice. ![]() That landmark is expected in early 2005, which means an OS X-native version of OpenOffice is unlikely to arrive before early in 2006. In an update posted this week on the project site for the OS X version of OpenOffice, developers said they won't start working on a translation that supports the Mac operating system's Quartz/Aqua interface until version 2.0 of OpenOffice is finished. Mac users will have to wait a little longer for a version of OpenOffice that fully supports OS X, according to the developer group working on the translation. ![]()
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