ThinkFree Office 3 available
The unofficial Apple weblog points out that Thinkfree have released their office application for the Mac. For those of you considering the switch, either to the mac or away from office on the mac then it will be worthy of note that apparently the files work seamlessly between windows and mac machines.
“Late last week, the ThinkFree Corporation released ThinkFree Office 3 for the Mac. For the uninitiated, ThinkFree Office is a suite of office applications that can be used as an alternative to Microsoft’s Office, and includes a word processing application (Write), a spreadsheet application (Calc) and presentation software (Show). None of these apps use proprietary file formats, meaning they play very well with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. In fact, my brother in law has been using ThinkFree office in a mixed Mac/Windows work environment for ages now with no trouble.”
Some of the changes included in the new version are:
“Changes to version 3 include: Support for 11 languages - including right-to-left publishing (i.e. Chinese, Arabic), an option to save as files as PDF, bundled fonts (i.e. Arial, Times New Roman) and an enhanced user interface. You can download a trial copy here. A single license will run you $50US, and users of previous versions can upgrade for $30US. ThinkFree Office 3 requires Mac OS X 10.3 (Java 1.4.2 Update 2 or later) or Mac OS X 10.4 (From August 2005) running on a G4 or G5. “
Read the whole article here