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OpenOffice Online Goes Beta

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-your-service dept.

Stony Stevenson sends word of the beta availability of a software-as-a-service version of OpenOffice 2.3, brought to us by Mandriva Linux creator Gael Duval. According to Ars, this package "easily offers the most features of any online office suite," though it "lacks the collaborative or document-sharing features of competitors like Google Docs or even Microsoft's Office Live Workspace." "To create this feature-rich environment, Online OpenOffice.org requires a modern browser with JavaScript and the Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.4+ plug-in. The setup has been tested in Firefox 1.5 and above, IE6 and 7, and even Safari, though Ubuntu users are specifically warned that they must be using the Sun Java (Sun JRE) plug-in or the current implementation of Online OpenOffice.org won't work."

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  1. Tested in IE6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Tested in IE6? That couldn't have been fun.

  2. First post! by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...I wrote this with a web-based editor.

  3. Re:Why would Ubuntu users care? Maybe... by davidsyes · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's like firing a salvo across the battleship msoft's bow. Might be firing arrows, and in a house of mirrors, but it's still firing shots. With an arrow, a leader can still be maimed or killed. Shatter the mirrors, and somebody's vision is jarred.

    Hopefully Mandriva has vision-correction lenses to make up for all the spider webs that will be generated. But, hopefully, thar be toxins on zee arrows, maytes...

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  4. Block that metaphor by xant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see we've got a battleship/salvo thing. That's pretty normal.

    Then it's an arrow.

    Then it's in a house of mirrors.

    Apparently the leaders are inside the house of mirrors. Wearing.. wait, breaking the mirrors makes it
    harder to see? The mirrors are there to confuse people. Seems like breaking them would be ok.

    Then.. oh god, spiders and glasses. Are the spiders wearing the glasses? Are they just climbing on peoples' eyes?

    And we're back to the arrows, now poisonous. (Would the poison make it harder or easier to break the mirrors?)

    And the poison is Mandrake--way to bring it back around!

    I've seen some fucked-up metaphors on here, but you win the blue ribbon for attendance by technical knock-out.

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