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Native KOffice for Mac OS X

Posted by michael on from the microsoft-office-not-good-enough-for-you dept.

bsharitt writes "A preliminary version of KOffice has been built natively on Mac OS X. It looks like a lot of the hard part is over, and now a lot of cleaning up and bug fixes stand between Mac OS X and a free full featured office suite." There's also a story on the dot.

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  1. Funny? by Libor+Vanek · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...hard part is over, and now a lot of cleaning up and bug fixes..."

    Does only me finds this funny? NOW the hard BORING part starts...

  2. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This feels like an early christmas present to me.

    (And I'm not even Orthodoc)

  3. Re:OpenOffice.org by Valegor · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I judge on a pruely objective basis, regarding the abilities of various office products (not I am looking at the product only) then MS Office wins every time, every application.

    When I judge a post based on proper spelling and punctuation vs. the message you are trying to get across, your post loses every time.

  4. ahh yes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    what a great marraige... finnally the world renouned ease of use and power of KDE Office gets the wide distribution it deserves on the market dominating OS X platform.... oh wait...

  5. Re:I really expected OpenOffice.org to be first... by Greger47 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please enlighten me, why do they insist on calling it Mac OS X if it doesn't even include a X server...

    /greger

  6. lets be nice,hehehe by nakedsource · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lets be nice and send fresh underwear to all the product executives at MS. They need it after this news.

  7. Re:The plot thickens... by cbreaker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yea, all ten of you Hebrew-speaking Macintosh users should boycot this blasphemy!

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