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OpenOffice.org to Get Firefox Extensions and More

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fight-for-your-desktop dept.

I_am_Rambi writes "OpenOffice.org is set to get new features including Firefox-like extensions. From the article: 'Second, and I think that although we have no clear road map for this yet (besides, our version naming scheme is going to change once again ), OpenOffice.org and StarOffice shall include the Mozilla Foundation's Thunderbird and Sunbird (calendaring application) in the future. Besides the inclusion of those two softs inside the office suite, connectors to Sun Calendar Server and Microsoft Exchange will also be developed accordingly.'"

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  1. Extension I'd like to see by Hahnsoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Toss in an automatic Term Paper writer extension, and I'm in! Wait, crap, I'm not in school anymore. *sigh* I always felt that I was born a decade too early.

  2. Re:What Open Office Needs... by Ant+P. · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would you like to point out the bugs you've filed for those usability issues, or would you like to STFU? :)

  3. Re:What Open Office Needs... by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    What Open Office really needs is not Firebox plug-in, but a complete code rewrite so that it is not a bloated whale of an application.

    Ooooooooh, I don't know. My instinctive reaction to the story was, "Cool! Now all they have to do is embed an OS and it'll be done."

    Could use a decent text editor though.

    KFG

  4. Re:Questions on Thunderbird/Sunbird Inclusion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "If you want to see Exchange support in Outlook"

    I want it removed, thanks very much.

  5. Resistance is futile. by Kadin2048 · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's just the natural order of things, as expressed by Zawinski's Law of Software Development:

    Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
    --
    "Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
  6. Oh NO! by c6gunner · · Score: 2, Funny

    They CAN'T bundle firefox with openoffice! The grammar and spelling nazis will die of loneliness!