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StarOffice 7, GNOME-Office 1.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the tell-your-boss dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Abiword 2.0 has been released. Finally the Linux desktop has a quality word processor that is faster to load than OpenOffice.org and includes proper footnotes. It also no longer uses its own font directory. At the same time Enchant 1.0.0 has been released, a cross-platform abstract layer to spellchecking. Enchant has been proposed to be a Freedesktop.org standard." That's not the only news, though: Abiword 2.0 is part of the just-released GNOME-Office 1.0, which, as riggwelter writes "coordinates GNOME2 versions of AbiWord, Gnumeric, and GNOME-DB, the database interface." Sun's StarOffice has just reached version 7, as well: read on below for some more information on that, including a first-look review.

Jim Hall writes "I just noticed that Sun Microsystems has released StarOffice 7. I've been using the StarOffice betas for a while now, so I have been eagerly awaiting this release! StarOffice is, of course, based on the ever-popular OpenOffice.org. StarOffice 7 software adds functionality to enable export to PDF, and to the Macromedia Flash format. It also introduces the new StarOffice Configuration Manager, the StarOffice Software Development Kit, a macro recorder, and support for assistive technologies, as well as for complex text layouts. Multi-platform running on Linux, Solaris OS and Windows. Only US$79.95 to buy your copy for home (free for edu, plus cost of media+shipping.) Now is a great time to show this to your boss and pitch that 'MS Office to StarOffice' conversion project."

An anonymous reader writes "NewsForge has a 'drive-by' 'quick-peek' look at the new StarOffice up on their site."

One suggestion on office software for the Free Software desktop: Casually re-start a friend or co-worker's Windows computer with Knoppix and show them you can open their Word files with OpenOffice.org. Mention their machine is moderately safe from Word-borne viruses until they reboot into Windows.

16 of 336 comments (clear)

  1. StarOffice has a lot of catching up to do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft is at, what, Office 2003? That's 1996 versions beyound StarOffice 7. Come on guys, get moving!

    1. Re:StarOffice has a lot of catching up to do by scotch · · Score: 2, Funny
      Ah yes, I remember my days in the air force. We used to refer to the career slide makers as power point rangers. Captains, Majors, and beyond. I don't know who said it, but it certainly applies: "Powerpoint, never before has one tool allowed so many to say so much about so little." Or thereabouts.

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  2. Complete history by ENOENT · · Score: 4, Funny

    StarOffice is based on OpenOffice.org, which is based on StarOffice.

    Around and around we go!

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    1. Re:Complete history by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      just like mozilla is based on netscape, which is based on mozilla.

    2. Re:Complete history by rampant+mac · · Score: 5, Funny
      "StarOffice is based on OpenOffice.org, which is based on StarOffice."

      Close...

      StarOffice is based on OpenOffice which is based on StarOffice which copies many functions from Microsoft Office, which debuted first on the Macintosh, who purchased ClarisWorks only to produce AppleWorks and later created Mac OS X that copies many *BSD features. Does this mean Microsoft Office is dying, StarOffice is dying or OpenOffice is dying? I'm confused.

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    3. Re:Complete history by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Funny

      Excellent, I now have a storyline for my Geek Soap Opera: "As the OS turns". Is your Office Suite cheating on your OS? Who shot J.R.E.? Sure, Mac OS X sure is pretty, BUT WHO ARE THE PARENTS??? If Microsft dies, who gets to keep the mansion?

      I love Linux. But I like OS X a lot more.

      And with a .sig like that, you my man, will cast in the leading roll!

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    4. Re:Complete history by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's role.

      The leading roll is the one which I eat first. :)

    5. Re:Complete history by rampant+mac · · Score: 2, Funny
      "Who shot J.R.E.?"

      I'll only perform if you change that to "Who shot JBoss."

      Sorry, that's my contract, and it's GPL'ed :)

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  3. Re:Casual mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    OpenOffice is actually a pared down version of emacs.

  4. Re:So, what's the version of Gnome Office again? by yerdaddy_777 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is Gnome Office 1.0 (I read the article, but don't tell anyone).

  5. Re:Casual mistake by buffer-overflowed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you really miss the eliza psychologist that much?

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  6. Re:Casual mistake by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Do you really miss the eliza psychologist that much?"

    What makes you say that?

    KFG

  7. Re:Problems with gnome. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Its not my computer either,

    Try running it on your own computer

  8. Re:Casual mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, the universe is a pared down version of emacs.

  9. worse than that by GunFodder · · Score: 2, Funny

    We have Java 2 Standard Edition versions 1.2 through 1.4.2. Don't forget Java 2 Enterprise Edition versions 1.2 and 1.3, or Java 2 Micro Edition (no clue what versions). J2EE includes Java Enterprise Beans with at least versions 1 and 2, and J2ME includes MIDP with at least versions 1 and 2 as well. Actually there are more Java specs than you can shake a stick at.

    Java 3 may require several megabytes just to store the version numbers of all the included components :)

  10. Inevitable quote from Young Frankenstein by The_ForeignEye · · Score: 2, Funny
    Abiword 2.0 has been released

    Just can't help thinking of

    • Who's brain is this?
    • Abby...something...
    • Abby...something?
    • Abby...normal
    • A B normal!!?

    So, what word processor did you just release? It's not really Abiword, is it?