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StarOffice 6.0 Beta Available
Lumpish Scholar and 753 other people wrote in to let us know that Sun has released its beta of Star Office 6. CNET has a blurb about the release as well. I was hoping that Sun's site might be unclogged enough to try it out myself, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards today.
Before it was even announced on /.! Hate to think of the /. effect on top of that.
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People complain when Microsoft releases a browser for free and undercuts Netscape. However, Sun releases an office suite for free (obviously to undercut Microsoft) and people applaud this showing of "choice".
Why the double standard?
The TRUTH .. not our typical "MS Just Sucks".
Sorry to rain on your ant parade but:
The truth is MS Just Sucks. You answered your own question. Besides that, it is in MS interest to make it hard for anyone to interoperate. So, they not only suck, but they suck for a purpose, namely to pick your pockets.
-- Another senseless waste of fine bytes.
I simply will never understand the mentality of the green screen luddite.
Sure, if you are writing letters to grandma plain text might suffice. But any sort of business doc or programming documentation is far easier to read with proper use of bolding and large fonts. Not to mention that proportional fonts are far easier to read and are far more compact of text.
And things like headers and footers are occasionally useful. I'll bet you also feel that diagrams and tables are way overrated. Hey, why not just use ASCII-art?
No one cares about file size, except people who are stuck in the past of 110 baud modems and 5 megabyte hard drives.
The only point you might have is platform independance, but the solution is making documents platform independence, not returning to the dark ages.
And yes, I post HTML to Usenet and insist on sending HTML e-mail. Screw all people who can't update their news readers or mail readers.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I'm running Office XP right now. Outlook is currently using 23M of RAM. Word is using 28M. (Windows 2000 + Office XP)
What percentage of your total ram does this represent?
You must be the kind of person who judges the quality of a compiler by measuring how big the "Hello world" executable is, uh?
Get real. Nobody cares about ram, or hard disk for that matter.