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Another Office Alternative

Posted by michael on from the one-office-suite-to-bind-them-all dept.

MiTEG writes "The Washington Post has an article on a cheaper alternative to Microsoft's Office Suite, ThinkFree Office. Currently selling for $50, their product also includes a one year subscription to Cyberdrive, a 20 MB web file-storage service. While it's no StarOffice, this glowing review may help people realize that Microsoft is not the only option." 'Glowing review' probably isn't the right term to use, since the reviewer found quite a few faults.

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  1. "one year subscription to cyberdrive" by 3-State+Bit · · Score: 5, Funny

    anyone know why people would normally pay cyberdrive for 20 megs of web storage, when yahoo gives you 30 megs for free?

    Oh, and
    Point 1: "Connect to Briefcase from your Windows desktop with the Yahoo! Drive Client. Drag and drop or save files directly to Briefcase from any application." (same page).

    Point 2: on Linux you'd get the same functionality without running a foreign exe to modify your OS [!], but rather by mounting a ten-line Perl script of your own design, to proxy the http connection as though it were your web browser.

    Point 3: This, incidentally, is why people use Windows.

  2. Thinkfree? Name Change Proposal by ReadParse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they ought to call themselves "ThinkFiftyDollars"... their name kind of suggests that it's free!

    RP

  3. Re:Thinkfree? Name Change Proposal by danielrose · · Score: 3, Funny

    No. No. No.
    Their name simply means that everyone who uses the software, thinks it SHOULD be free.

    --
    i hate pansy republicans
  4. Still April Fools? by dilute · · Score: 2, Funny

    I get it. The review was scheduled for April 1, but his editor made him use this word processor to write it, and it was a little SLOW. . .