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OpenOffice Online Goes Beta
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."
Since neither the article or the summary provide links:
The company:http://www.ulteo.com/
Online OOO:http://www.ulteo.com/home/ooo
And if you dont want to register just to see it. Bug me not works for now.
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The one major advantage that I find to online systems even without document sharing is that it makes it incredibly easy to access my documents from multiple computers. As a college student, I often find myself working on a document (whether a paper, a to-do list, etc.) that I need to access from my computer, from my lab computers, and from kiosks in the library.
While I can put my file on my flash drive, some web kiosks on campus don't have Office or OpenOffice installed and thus won't open my documents. As such, I find it much easier to put simple documents that I need to open from many locations into my google docs account, and then I don't have to worry about the portability thing. For people like me, online systems really can be useful even if they don't include document-sharing capabilities.
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.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
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