[TriLUG] Link to the new version of Star Office ver. 6.0 beta

Rick Gatewood gatewood at nc.rr.com
Fri Oct 5 13:30:26 EDT 2001


On Friday 05 October 2001 01:11 am, you wrote:
I found it easy to pull down after waiting a day and as far as I can tell, it 
looks like Open Office. That is nice because it means they got rid of the 
integrated desktop. 
> I haven't checked this out yet, due to a lack of time, but I thought y'all
> might like to have the link. I hope there are Linux and Windows versions.
> The latter so that another nail can be put in Microsoft's coffin!! by a
> REAL Harvard graduate :-)
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> http://www.sun.com/staroffice/6.0beta/
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> StarOffice has jumped to the front of the pack of free office suites, but
> version 5.2 left a little to be desired in terms of feature sets and
> compatibility, but following about 45 minutes of tire-kicking in the 6.0
> Beta, I actually feel like I could dump Microsoft Office and get along fine
> just using StarOffice. I'm far from an Office expert, but I do use it
> frequently, and everything I do is available in StarOffice... at least that
> I've been able to think of so far. If you don't mind Beta software, take
> the time to download the 95MB package and see what you think
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