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MacOffice Supports Office 2007 Formats

MacOffice Supports Office 2007 Formats

by , 10:25 AM EDT, August 15th, 2007

Mac Office announced the immediate availability of MacOffice Professional on Wednesday. MacOffice Professional is a business suite for Mac OS X that is compatible with Microsoft Office, and supports the new file formats used in Office 2007 for Windows.


MacOffice Professional

The application suite is Universal Binary, allowing it to run natively on PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, and supports Visual Basic Applications. It includes tools for word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, relational database development, equation editing, charting and drawing. It also supports converting PowerPoint-compatible presentations into Flash .SWF files.

MacOffice Professional is available on DVD ROM at the Mac Office Web site, and is priced at US$47.95.

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Subject: OpenOffice?

I've been looking at some of the screen shots on their web site. Is that or is that not just OpenOffice?

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Nothing new apparently

This article http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars reviews the product and states it's nothing more than freeware renamed, packaged, and priced. Save money and go free.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Probably neooffice

it's probably neooffice rather than openoffice, but yeah.

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