• Huge but long overdue (2007)
A year ago, IBM was finally joining the OpenOffice community. From where I stand, I can’t comment on what has really happened, but I can say that the work on OOo 3.0, the new license and the the aqua port, and add-ons like the Presenter screen are all looking very good (not that any of that really has to do with IBM AFAIK).
Bistro! 2.0 
I am glad to read OOo is improving.
I hope OOo will focus also on annoying missing (little) features so that this software will become top-notch and offer a better user experience.
See http://www.jroller.com/dmdevito/entry/openoffice_lacks_a_little_to