Chicken vnc for mac. Who says you can't have fast, good and cheap? 's latest release of the most popular open-source office suite, 4.4 is quite fast on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows; it works well on all three desktop operating systems, and it won't cost you a penny. LibreOffice 4.4 comes with many interface improvements. Beauty's in the eye of the beholder, but The Document Foundation claims that ever.

I don't know about that, but I do know that the LibreOffice's user-interface (UI) is more efficient than ever. Unlike Microsoft Office, which has used a ribbon-based interface since Office 2007, LibreOffice still uses a top-menu based UI.

Putting that aside, though, even if does turn out to be the Leopards meow, savvy Mac users should give the free, open-source office suite alternative, NeoOffice, a try. Get the latest Apache OpenOffice release for your MacOS X. User Support. Please subscribe to the users mailing list. Send an empty email to users-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org and just reply to the returned email. News and weblog. Recent news articles from the Apache OpenOffice homepage. Recent weblog postings from the official Apache.

Personally, I prefer LibreOffice's approach. Jan 'Kendy' Holesovsky, the leader of the design team, explained in a statement that LibreOffice 4.4's new beauty comes from 'redesigned menu bars, context menus, toolbars, status bars and rulers to make them much more useful. The Sifr monochrome icon theme is extended and now the default on OS X. We also developed a new Color Selector, improved the Sidebar to integrate more smoothly with menus, and reworked many user interface details to follow today's UX trends.'

Specifically, the new, improved LibreOffice UI boasts better, clearer contextual menus, sidebars, and right-click context menus. For example, the style drop-down menu now has a split menu to edit or update the selected style. Behind the good looks, LibreOffice also does a better job of importing and exporting file formats. In particular, LibreOffice now has two new fonts, Carlito and Caladea, that replace Microsoft's proprietary Calibri, Office 2013's default font, and Cambria.

This, in turn, makes it easier for LibreOffice to import Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) formatted files. Another improvement, which I know will make my editors happier, is that LibreOffice has improved the way it tracks changes to manuscripts and spreadsheets. This makes it easier to use LibreOffice, and its native Open Document Format (ODF), when you're sharing work with colleagues.

Behind all of these improvements, the LibreOffice programming team used to find bugs. Once found, they were cleaned out. The result is a program that should be both safer and have improved performance. Is this a major release? It is a better release? Yes, yes it is. LibreOffice users will be glad to see it, and if you've been thinking about replacing your existing office suite with an excellent, free alternative, now's a great time to give LibreOffice a try.