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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?"

7 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 MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Everyone knows that frozen heads can't explode.

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  2. 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?"

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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    "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
  6. 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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