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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. Re:File formats are more important by Evro · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pdf is ok, but again the file format itself is proprietary

    PDF is not proprietary; it is an open standard. The problem with PDF is that it is not editable, so is not very useful for sending back and forth for editing purposes.

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  2. HELOOOO!!! Have any of you used this app? by swagr · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, there are several of premature remarks here. "Java is slow", "it's not free", "it's not Office/StarOffice/KOffice", etc...

    Just to let you all know. I actually tried it.
    I used it to whip up an updated version of my resume, and saved in in rtf, doc, and html. I then proceeded to open the doc and rtf in Word, and the html in various browsers, only to find they all looked exactly as expected.

    I thought that was rather nice.

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