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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. Re:It's a hard battle by DeadMeat+(TM) · · Score: 1, Redundant
    How hard is it REALLY to parse out Word Documents and have it work???? I haven't been involved in the project, but I would really like to hear some feedback to why nobody can open freaking word documents. The TRUTH .. not our typical "MS Just Sucks".
    Because the .DOC format is entirely undocumented. What little information people have comes mostly from reverse-engineering the .DOC format, which is a very slow process. Also I've been told that one of the MSDN CDs that Microsoft shipped out to developers once inadvertently included a partial (and not entirely accurate) specification for the .DOC format, but for all I know it's a myth, since I don't have a copy.