OpenOffice.org, the increasingly popular Office-like productivity suite is finally native on the Mac with the latest releases, still in Release Candidate, although hopefully close to a stable full release. Since Sun has bought OpenOffice it’s been looming in the background as a potential Office killer. But OpenOffice has never taken that step. People seem leery about it, not wanting to retrain users, not trusting of a new, weird app. Understandably, most everyone on the planet seems pretty darn used to using Office at this point, and users don’t typically take well to change. The new document formats for Office, .docx (for Word), pptx (for Power Point) and .xlsx (for Excel) are fully supported in the latest release and it seems perfectly stable having not crashed on me once. Every document I opened from Office works like a charm and I’m starting to wonder if, after 9 years in development, the product is finally not only mature enough, but also mature enough in the eyes of potential adopters… Or is Google Apps the way to go instead. Office is certainly facing a time when there is more competition than ever before. One final one: Lotus’ Symphony, which has recently been released – but doesn’t compare to Office nor OpenOffice.