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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?"

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  1. Re:Bizarre Screenshot From Writer by tijmentiming · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Quick brown fox is the sentence to show all the available characters in the english language. Every other language has it's own sentence. It's called a Pangram: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram

  2. Re:Language Confusion? by bloodninja · · Score: 5, Informative

    An article written in English showing a Chinese program being installed on a French OS. No. It's an article written in English showing a Chinese program being installed on a French virtual machine running in a Spanish OS.

    Fuck.
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  3. Re:Microsoft by jaxtherat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Whoever modded that 'Flamebait' should have moded that 'Insightful'.

    Speaking as someone who used to live behind the Iron Curtain, and DAILY thanks his parents for emigrating to Australia.

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