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StarOffice 8 in July

Posted by timothy on

McSpew writes "Sun Microsystems plans to release StarOffice 8 in July. Can this mean that OpenOffice.org 2.0 will be ready in the same timeframe?"

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  1. Re:So? by l3v1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I do care, myself. I try to use OO, but the exporting/importing from MS Office in 1.x has some problems.

    I always feel that I need to count to 10 and calm down before refelecting on such statements. The main reasons I would never embrace anything from and related to Microsoft is that today there are very many people that really think that everything out there should be Microsoft-compatible, and _never_ the other way around. No matter if the others have genuine standards compliance, great open formats, etc. For them it's the MS way or the highway. That said, I do think OpenOffice.org does a very great job at importing and exporting Word documents, in spite the fact that the whole damn format is burried hundred feet deep under Everglades among rotting animal corpses.

    and the 2.x betas are not provided as binaries

    I honestly don't know what you are talking about.

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