FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CLARA, CA—17 March 2008— NeoOffice.org is pleased to announce the release of NeoOffice 2.2.3. NeoOffice 2.2.3 is available for all users from the NeoOffice download page.

NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.

NeoOffice 2.2.3 includes all of the features in OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 and includes many of the features that Microsoft Office 2008 includes. Key features in NeoOffice 2.2.3 are listed below. Please visit http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/features.php for details about each of these key features:

• Handles Most Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files
• Handles Most Excel VBA Macros
• QuickTime video support (Mac OS X 10.4.x and higher only)
• Menus available when no documents are open
• Import images from scanners and cameras
• Command-clicking on window titlebar
• Mac OS X Leopard grammar checking support (Mac OS X 10.5.x only)

Special thanks also go to the following organizations and people:

• All of NeoOffice donors. The NeoOffice project is funded entirely by the time and money donated by our users. Without the generous donations and volunteer hours made by our users, this release would not have been possible.
• The odf-converter project for their creation of and continued enhancements to their open source Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file translators.
• OpenOffice.org for the well-supported Windows, Linux, and Solaris code upon which NeoOffice is built.
• The ooo-build project for their many enhancements to the OpenOffice.org code.

Like NeoOffice.org, these organizations and people are dedicated to providing open source software as a public service to people throughout the world at no cost. Their generosity helps make free applications like NeoOffice possible.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CLARA, CA—10 October 2007— NeoOffice.org is pleased to announce the release of NeoOffice 2.2.2. NeoOffice 2.2.2 is available for all users from the NeoOffice download page. NeoOffice 2.2.1 users can also upgrade to NeoOffice 2.2.2 by downloading the latest NeoOffice patch.

NeoOffice 2.2.2 contains all of the following features that were introduced in NeoOffice 2.2.1:

• Support for the native Mac OS X spellchecker
• Support for the native Mac OS X address book
• Support for high resolution printing
• Opening, editing, and saving of most Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents

In addition, NeoOffice 2.2.2 contains many performance improvements and bug fixes including:

• Faster text layout, kerning, and drawing
• More compact print output
• Faster, less CPU-intensive drawing of Aqua controls

NeoOffice 2.2.2 allows Mac users to utilize most Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files without the need for Microsoft's Office 2007 translators. Also, with native Mac OS X spellchecking and address book support, NeoOffice users now have a more seamless integration of Mac OS X's built-in tools than either Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org. Lastly, NeoOffice users can now print high resolution images at the resolution supported by your printer.

Special thanks also go to the following organizations and people:

• All of NeoOffice donors. The NeoOffice project is funded entirely by the time and money donated by our users. Without the generous donations and volunteer hours made by our users, this release would not have been possible.
• The odf-converter project for their creation of their open source Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file translators.
• OpenOffice.org for the well-supported Windows, Linux, and Solaris code upon which NeoOffice is built.
• The ooo-build project for their many enhancements to the OpenOffice.org code.
• Omer Bar-or of the Google Summer of Code project for his development of the native Mac OS X address book support for OpenOffice.org.

Like NeoOffice.org, these organizations and people are dedicated to providing open source software as a public service to people throughout the world at no cost. Their generosity helps make free applications like NeoOffice possible.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CLARA, CA—27 August 2007— NeoOffice.org is pleased to announce the release of NeoOffice 2.2.1. NeoOffice 2.2.1 is available for all users from the NeoOffice download page.

NeoOffice 2.2.1 contains a number of unique new features including:

• Support for the native Mac OS X spellchecker
• Support for the native Mac OS X address book
• Support for high resolution printing
• Opening, editing, and saving of most Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents
• The latest features from OpenOffice.org 2.2.1
• And more!

NeoOffice 2.2.1 allows Mac users to utilize most Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files without the need for Microsoft's Office 2007 translators. Also, with native Mac OS X spellchecking and address book support, NeoOffice users now have a more seamless integration of Mac OS X's built-in tools than either Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org. Lastly, NeoOffice users can now print high resolution images at the resolution supported by your printer.

Special thanks also go to the following organizations and people:

• All of NeoOffice donors. The NeoOffice project is funded entirely by user donations. Without the generous donations made by our users, NeoOffice 2.2.1 would not have been possible.
• The odf-converter project for their creation of their open source Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file translators.
• OpenOffice.org for the well-supported Windows, Linux, and Solaris code upon which NeoOffice is built.
• The ooo-build project for their many enhancements to the OpenOffice.org code.
• Omer Bar-or of the Google Summer of Code project for his development of the native Mac OS X address book support for OpenOffice.org.

Like NeoOffice.org, these organizations and people are dedicated to providing open source software as a public service to people throughout the world at no cost. Their generosity helps make free applications like NeoOffice possible.

11 August 2007 - Since we released NeoOffice 2.2.1 Early Access through the NeoOffice Early Access Program three weeks ago, we have not only been fixing bugs reported by our Early Access members, we have also implemented a significant feature: high resolution printing.

Due to some restrictions in NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code, printing resolution has always been limited to 300 DPI in NeoOffice. While many older printers only support 300 DPI, this restriction caused many newer printers to print high resolution images at a reduced resolution.

Fortunately, after much effort, we have been able to remove these restrictions and we are pleased to announce that NeoOffice 2.2.1 Early Access can now print high resolution images at the resolution supported by your printer.

You can get the new high resolution printing support by installing the latest NeoOffice 2.2.1 Early Access patch. The latest patch can be downloaded by Early Access Program members and subscribers from the NeoOffice Early Access patch download page.

Additional details about the NeoOffice Early Access Program are available here.

We would like to thank all of the people who have donated to NeoOffice. Without their financial support, adding this new feature would not have been possible.

If you have any support questions, please visit the NeoWiki or post a question in the NeoOffice support forum. Also, please post any bugs that you find in Bugzilla so that we can continue to improve NeoOffice.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CLARA, CA—23 July 2007— NeoOffice.org is pleased to announce the release of NeoOffice 2.2.1 Early Access through the NeoOffice Early Access Program.

NeoOffice 2.2.1 Early Access contains a number of unique new features including:

• Support for the native Mac OS X spellchecker
• Support for the native Mac OS X address book
• Opening, editing, and saving of most Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents
• The latest features from OpenOffice.org 2.2.1
• And more!

The NeoOffice 2.2.1 Early Access release will allow Mac users to utilize most Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files without the need for Microsoft's Office 2007 translators. Also, with native Mac OS X spellchecking and address book support, NeoOffice users now have a more seamless integration of Mac OS X's built-in tools than either Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org.

Special thanks go to the following organizations and people:

• The odf-converter project for their creation of their open source Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file translators.
• OpenOffice.org for the well-supported Windows, Linux, and Solaris code upon which NeoOffice is built.
• The ooo-build project for their many enhancements to the OpenOffice.org code.
• Omer Bar-or of the Google Summer of Code project for his development of the native Mac OS X address book support for OpenOffice.org.

Like NeoOffice.org, these organizations and people are dedicated to providing open source software as a public service to people throughout the world at no cost. Their generosity helps make free applications like NeoOffice possible.

25 June 2007 - Two weeks ago, Apple released Mac OS X Leopard Beta and we have not wasted any time making the necessary changes to NeoOffice so that it works on this exciting new Mac OS X release.

Not only does NeoOffice work on Leopard Beta, but we have also added support for Leopard's new Quick Look feature. With the latest NeoOffice patch, Leopard Beta users can quickly preview in the Finder the first page of any files saved with NeoOffice 2.1 Patch 6 or later.

If you already have NeoOffice 2.1, you can get the new Leopard features by installing the latest NeoOffice 2.1 patch. The latest patch can be downloaded from the NeoOffice patch download page.

We would like to thank all of the people who have donated to NeoOffice. Without their financial support, adding new Leopard features would not have been possible.

If you have any support questions, please visit the NeoWiki or post a question in the NeoOffice support forum. Also, please post any bugs that you find in Bugzilla so that we can continue to improve NeoOffice.

After releasing the last performance patch a few weeks ago, we have not rested and we have eliminated another set of performance bottlenecks in NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code and fixed those bottlenecks by replacing the OpenOffice.org code with code that is optimized specifically for Mac OS X.

As a result of our fixes, text layout and drawing speed is now 2 to 2.5 times faster than it was in the last patch. Put anther way, laying out a document's text is now done in 40% to 50% of the time. While users who use only short documents may not notice much change, users with large text-based documents will notice much smoother scrolling, faster relayout of the document when changes are made, less CPU usage, and shorter print times.

We would like to thank all of the people who have donated to NeoOffice. Without their financial support, these performance improvements would not have been possible.

If you already have NeoOffice 2.1, you can get these performance improvements by installing the latest NeoOffice 2.1 patch. The latest patch can be downloaded from the NeoOffice patch download page.

If you have any support questions, please visit the NeoWiki or post a question in the NeoOffice support forum. Also, please post any bugs that you find in Bugzilla so that we can continue to improve NeoOffice.

On June 4th, 2007 Sun Microsystems and OpenOffice.org released the first Developer Preview of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (Aqua). This version of OpenOffice.org runs on Mac OS X without the need for the X11 windowing system.

The OpenOffice.org team needs your help, so download and test this new release to continue improving OpenOffice.org. To become an OpenOffice.org tester, join the OpenOffice.org Mac mailing list today!

If you encounter any bugs, please file them in the OpenOffice.org IssueZilla bug reporting system. Mac-specifc issues should be assigned to "macport" at the request of the OpenOffice.org Mac OS X porting team.

After countless hours of performance analysis work, we recently had a breakthrough that enabled us to identify specific performance bottlenecks in NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code and fix those bottlenecks by replacing the OpenOffice.org code with code that is optimized specifically for Mac OS X.

As a result of our fixes, image scaling and drawing speed has been increased and memory usage has been reduced. While users may not notice much change in performance when using text-based documents, users should see image-intensive activities such as running a slide show with transitions or scrolling through large documents perform several times faster than before.

We would like to thank all of the people who have donated to NeoOffice. Without their financial support, these performance improvements would not have been possible.

If you already have NeoOffice 2.1, you can get these performance improvements by installing the latest NeoOffice 2.1 patch. The latest patch can be downloaded from the NeoOffice patch download page.

If you have any support questions, please visit the NeoWiki or post a question in the NeoOffice support forum. Also, please post any bugs that you find in Bugzilla so that we can continue to improve NeoOffice.

Recently, it has come to our attention that Sun Microsystems, a large user of NeoOffice, has officially entered the Mac porting space. In true open source style, the only possible way to address this is through an open letter.

Read on for our open letter to Jonathan Schwartz and Sun Microsystems regarding their breakthrough announcement.