A new beta version of the OpenOffice suite was delivered earlier this week. The open source project is the foundation of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice.

Kind of an 'OpenGoose (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Howard+Hughes%22+%22Spruce+Goose%22&sa=N&tab=wi)', to StarGoose, if you like.

The language support in Version 1.1 will be particularly welcomed. The new beta features support for "Complex Text Layout and languages such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew."

A full list of features can be found here (http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta/features.html). For more OpenOffice projects, look here (http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html). Macintosh users, go here (http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/download.html) for the most recent X11 build.

OK, we'll knock it off. This office suite is really getting too useful to deserve any more Howard Hughes gags... ®

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