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NeoOffice® 2.2.5 for Mac OS X Released

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CLARA, CA—15 September 2008— NeoOffice.org is pleased to announce the release of NeoOffice 2.2.5. NeoOffice 2.2.5 is available for all users from the NeoOffice download page.

NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation 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 is one of the most stable office suites for Mac OS X. We have created an office suite that is adapted to the unique needs of Mac users by taking the features in Oracle's OpenOffice.org office suite and adding improvements such as:

NeoOffice 2.2.5 includes nearly all of the features in OpenOffice.org 3.0 and includes many of the most commonly used features in Microsoft Office. Since stability is one of our most important goals, we wait until a few months after a new OpenOffice.org version has been officially released before we integrate the latest OpenOffice.org version's new features into NeoOffice. Because of this, the new features added in OpenOffice.org 3.0 are not in NeoOffice 2.2.5 but those new features will included in NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access which is planned to be released in November 2008.

Below is a list of some of the Mac OS X features requested by our users that are in NeoOffice 2.2.5 but are not in OpenOffice.org 3.0:

Special thanks also go to the following organizations and people:

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.

NeoOffice 2.2.5 can be downloaded by all Mac OS X users from the NeoOffice download page. The NeoOffice project is funded entirely by donations from our users so please consider making a small donation before downloading to help us continue to improve NeoOffice.

If you have any support questions, please visit the NeoWiki or ask your question in the NeoOffice Support forum.

Also, please post any bugs that you find in Bugzilla so that we can continue to improve NeoOffice.

About NeoOffice.org

Since 2003, NeoOffice has been the leading open source office software created and supported by Mac users specifically for Mac OS X and is used by over half a million people worldwide. NeoOffice.org is funded NeoOffice entirely by the time and money donated by our users. For more information, visit http://www.neooffice.org/.

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