Neo Office 2.1 Opens Office 2007 Files!

For those of you not familiar with Neo Office, it's a port of the Open Office, the free open source office suite available for download on the Net, that runs natively on Mac OS X. There are versions for both PowerPC and Intel powered Macs, and the latest version also claims to open Office 2007 files in Microsoft's proprietary XML format. Since I have copies of Office 2007 loaded on both my Macs, I tried it and it does work. It does take Neo Office a minute or two to perform the translation and display the final result. That said, the document I opened only contained some simple formatting, so I can't speak to how well it handles complex formats. Still, it's better than nothing, which is what Microsoft has supplied us Office 2004 owners so far. Yes, I know it's coming; but I want it now!

If you do, too, then downloading and installing Neo Office is the thing to do. And if you like it so much you decide to hang onto it and not buy any more copies of Office or anything else, don't blame me!