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StarOffice 6.0 Beta Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the for-small-values-of-available dept.

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.

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  1. Still not up to par... by Dop · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...but it may be my fault.

    Granted I'm talking about the previous release, but my fonts all still looked like crap (blocky and hard to read) and the text area just wasn't as smooth as Office.

    I kinda wish everyone would stop trying to make Unix a desktop machine when windows and mac do it so much better already. That's the one thing they do very well. There's nothing wrong with having unix servers and win/mac clients.

    I have yet to see an OS do both (server and client) very well. Maybe it has something to do with the basic design concepts?