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RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-is-it-better dept.

Johannes Eva writes "As IBM Lotus Symphony shows its first public version 1.0, the Chinese OpenOffice.org derivative RedOffice offers the first beta of its new version 4.0. The open source RedOffice gets a new UI inspired from Microsoft Office 2007, with a vertical 'ribbon.' Is this the future of OpenOffice.org?"

16 of 224 comments (clear)

  1. Microsoft by dintech · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh dear. More evidence for the Microsoft "fact"-sheet that open source is indeed communism.

    1. Re:Microsoft by billcopc · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wow. If Australia is what you call an improvement, please.. pretty please don't ever set foot in Canada or your head will literally explode!

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    2. Re:Microsoft by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Everyone knows that frozen heads can't explode.

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    3. Re:Microsoft by Anonymous+Monkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe he means his head will freeze and the water expanding inside will cause his skull to crack.

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    4. Re:Microsoft by tehcyder · · Score: 2, Funny

      Speaking as someone who used to live behind the Iron Curtain, and DAILY thanks his parents for emigrating to Australia.
      Well, to paraphrase Terry Pratchett, at least there are no poisonous snakes there - the spiders have eaten them all.
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    5. Re:Microsoft by Fred_A · · Score: 2, Funny

      What culture does? There's a faint possibility that the people recently revealed in the Amazon basin actually do, but since nobody from the outside is allowed near them we can't be sure. However, one sign is that none of them appears to be running Linux.

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  2. Red... by Justabit · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is it ribbon or tape?

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    1. Re:Red... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is it ribbon or tape?
      RedOffice Assistant: I can see that you're trying to create a table. Please wait 14-21 days while the RedOffice Table Committee meets to determine if we'll allow you to do that.
      User: Arrgghh!!!
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  3. Bizarre Screenshot From Writer by Airw0lf · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.johannes-eva.net/images/2008_05_27_redoffice_review/2008%2005%20-%20RedOffice%20-%20Screenshot%208%20Format%20Templates.png That text in French says "One should eat the cat hot. When it's cold it's disgusting..." Whatever happened to the "quick brown fox?"

    1. Re:Bizarre Screenshot From Writer by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

      Must be ancient chinese recipe.

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    2. Re:Bizarre Screenshot From Writer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Ancient? I'm quite sure I had it yesterday...

  4. Oh no... by MassiveForces · · Score: 1, Funny

    In future, we all speaka the Chinese?!

    1. Re:Oh no... by BiggerIsBetter · · Score: 4, Funny

      In future, we all speaka the Chinese?! Damn dude, didn't you watch Firefly?
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  5. Re: innovation? or ... by mrbluze · · Score: 5, Funny

    imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? China is one of the greatest flatterers out there by that measure!
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  6. Language Confusion? by Aehgts · · Score: 5, Funny

    An article written in English showing a Chinese program being installed on a French OS.
    I'm sure the new UI is fantastic, based on the eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs
    with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was.

    Makes me want to install RedOffice and blog about it.
    And then three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people installing RedOffice and blogging about it.
    They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,
    I said fifty people a day installing RedOffice and blogging about it.
    And friends they may thinks it's a movement.


    (Apologies to Arlo)

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  7. Big Red by Gothmolly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it automatically inform the authorities when you commit thoughtcrime ?

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