StarOffice 7, GNOME-Office 1.0 Released 336
Jim Hall writes "I just noticed that Sun Microsystems has released StarOffice 7. I've been using the StarOffice betas for a while now, so I have been eagerly awaiting this release! StarOffice is, of course, based on the ever-popular OpenOffice.org. StarOffice 7 software adds functionality to enable export to PDF, and to the Macromedia Flash format. It also introduces the new StarOffice Configuration Manager, the StarOffice Software Development Kit, a macro recorder, and support for assistive technologies, as well as for complex text layouts. Multi-platform running on Linux, Solaris OS and Windows. Only US$79.95 to buy your copy for home (free for edu, plus cost of media+shipping.) Now is a great time to show this to your boss and pitch that 'MS Office to StarOffice' conversion project."
An anonymous reader writes "NewsForge has a 'drive-by' 'quick-peek' look at the new StarOffice up on their site."
One suggestion on office software for the Free Software desktop: Casually re-start a friend or co-worker's Windows computer with Knoppix and show them you can open their Word files with OpenOffice.org. Mention their machine is moderately safe from Word-borne viruses until they reboot into Windows.
StarOffice has a lot of catching up to do (Score:4, Funny)
Complete history (Score:5, Funny)
Around and around we go!
Re:Casual mistake (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So, what's the version of Gnome Office again? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Casual mistake (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Complete history (Score:1, Funny)
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Close...
StarOffice is based on OpenOffice which is based on StarOffice which copies many functions from Microsoft Office, which debuted first on the Macintosh, who purchased ClarisWorks only to produce AppleWorks and later created Mac OS X that copies many *BSD features. Does this mean Microsoft Office is dying, StarOffice is dying or OpenOffice is dying? I'm confused.
Re:Complete history (Score:5, Funny)
I love Linux. But I like OS X a lot more.
And with a
Re:Casual mistake (Score:5, Funny)
What makes you say that?
KFG
Re:Complete history (Score:2, Funny)
The leading roll is the one which I eat first.
Re:Problems with gnome. (Score:2, Funny)
Try running it on your own computer
Re:Casual mistake (Score:3, Funny)
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I'll only perform if you change that to "Who shot JBoss."
Sorry, that's my contract, and it's GPL'ed :)
Re:StarOffice has a lot of catching up to do (Score:3, Funny)
worse than that (Score:3, Funny)
Java 3 may require several megabytes just to store the version numbers of all the included components
Inevitable quote from Young Frankenstein (Score:2, Funny)
Just can't help thinking of
So, what word processor did you just release? It's not really Abiword, is it?