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Sony To Package StarOffice On European PCs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the open-office-free-and-optional dept.

Jahf writes "This News.com article talks about how Sony is adopting Sun's Star Office suite over Microsoft office in some areas. It's nice to see it being adopted, maybe this is the beginning of a trend. While Star Office is still not as optimized as it could be (read: it eats memory and can be a little slow even compared to MS Office), it has all the features most people need and then some at a much better price." Specifically, as reader Yacoubean points out (pointing to coverage at InfoWorld),"The PCs will be sold in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland."

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  1. Re:Works Suite by IndependentVik · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahhh, yes, the infamous MS Works--one of the oldest misnomers in the PC market :)

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    I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.
  2. Wretched Plotting! by Bullseye_blam · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe that this is all a vile plot by Sony to eat into Microsoft's profit margins so that Microsoft must cut its losses on the Xbox and cede victory to Sony!

    Any takers? heheheh.

  3. Re:Anti-competitive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You forgot IANAL. Or you could have just said IAACI (I am a clusterfart idiot)