That Apple support page doesn't help with the OpenOffice situation unless an Apple Silicon compliant version becomes available. Here is email I sent yesterday addressing the issue:
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: DAVID BARNERT <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OpenOffice written for Apple Silicon, OS X Tahoe and later > Date: May 27, 2026 at 7:20:16 AM MST > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > > On April 27 I wrote: > >> From: DAVID BARNERT <[email protected]> >> Subject: OpenOffice future Mac incompatibility >> Date: April 27, 2026 at 5:24:03 PM MST >> To: [email protected] >> >> Apple has announced that starting with MacOS 28 (currently at 26) Rosetta >> will no longer be available, so OpenOffice will not run on Macs with Apple >> Silicon chips. >> >> https://support.apple.com/en-us/102527 >> >> Does anyone know of plans to make OpenOffice compatible with Apple Silicon >> chips in the absence of Rosetta? >> >> David Barnert >> Albany NY > > The same day [email protected] responded: > >> From: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: OpenOffice future Mac incompatibility >> Date: April 27, 2026 at 9:16:44 PM MST >> To: [email protected] >> Reply-To: <[email protected]> >> >> my plan is: >> >> - fix regressions in 4.2 >> >> - Win 64 bit version with 4.3 >> - jump to newer sdks for Windows and MacOS in Version 5 >> >> However i am currently trying to improve the build environment, which are >> our tools that build AOO. >> Damjan is working on Win 64, but its still crashing. Apache OpenOffice has >> some fancy way of connecting programming languages, and that is not easy to >> migrate to 64 bit. >> Once we have solved both issues the target Version for Silicon is unblocked. >> Currently i can not say if we will meet the deadline or not. Build >> environment, Win64 and support for sillicon are major changes. >> >> All the best >> >> Peter ------------- > On May 28, 2026, at 2:55 PM, Mark Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is information on the issue 'Using Intel-based apps on a Mac with Apple > silicon'. > > https://support.apple.com/en-us/102527?cid=mc-ols-rosetta-article_102527-macos_finder-52526201 > > > On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 1:46 AM Beatrice Bassi <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Hello! >> I just updated my mac and it’s saying that shortly it won’t support anymore >> open office because of the intel support. Apple suggested me to write you in >> order to tell me how to procede for continuing using it, could you kindly >> advise? Many thanks and best regards, >> >> Beatrice Bassi >> 🕉🙏🏻📿 >> >> @ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> ________________________________ >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Mark Wolf
