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Portable OpenOffice.org 2.01 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-ideas-are-good-ideas dept.

VeryVito writes "Portableapps.com has released Portable OpenOffice.org 2.01 -- the complete office suite you can run from a USB drive for complete access to both your files and your office apps -- anywhere you go. More than just a neat idea, some say it's a perfect example of "the kind of innovation developers can make when they don't have to worry about selling as many licenses of their work as possible." I don't imagine we'll see a portable Microsoft Office suite any time soon."

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  1. Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? by Prospero's+Grue · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why is Taco linking to Microsoft Office's home page? Is there a backhanded deal between Slashdot and Microsoft to covertly promote their software?

    Yeah, that must be it.

    "This OpenOffice story, which focused on a feature it had that MS Office didn't, was brought to you by Microsoft."

    "Microsoft. We're gonna mess with your heads."

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  2. Suite! If I could only work on a beach in Hawaii by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Office? We don't need no office, that is so 20th century. All we need now is a laptop, flash drive and a big umbrella.

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    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
  3. Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? by kalbzayn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe he's trying to bring Microsoft down by constantly slashdotting their site and making everybody believe the Microsoft is even more unreliable than it really is.

    Let's all go click on it now.

  4. Portable web server? by johnw · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can they do a portable slashdot-proof web server?

  5. portable MS Office suite soon by Randall311 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I don't imagine we'll see a portable Microsoft Office suite any time soon."

    why not?

  6. Re:Big achievment? by FridayBob · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's simply outrageous!! How dare the set such ridiculously high hardware requirements! Why, I'm sure that because of this, at least half of all readers who would have been will to try this out are now not even going to bother. The fools!

  7. 403 Forbidden by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Looks like Apache on a USB drive isn't working out so well.