I didn't, because it would slow everything down more than it should have been. It took about 35 secs to load up Staroffice 5.2 while it takes about 12 for openoffice.
Mail/news program should be seperate. BTW, there is going to be "integration" with mail/news programs, just not with "bundled" mail/news programs. YOu'll be able to click on a url and it will load a webpage, or click on an email address and it will compose with say evolution or whatever mail program you have installed.
As for the desktop? It seemed that SO was trying to emulate the windows desktop, which I think was stupid. Anyways
Sun's next verion, 6.0 will be based off of openoffice.org's open source release. Sun will build commerical Staroffice builds off of OpenOffice.org just like Netscape releases commercialized mozilla releases. Much of the time spent developing openoffice.org has been replacing the proprietary components that were in StarOffice 5.2 (spell checker, printer driver, etc).
IMHO, openoffice.org is much faster and cleaner than Staroffice 5.2. Out are the integrated desktop and mail/news integration. The releases are becoming more and more similar to M$ office, except for the licensing and price!
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Mail/news program should be seperate. BTW, there is going to be "integration" with mail/news programs, just not with "bundled" mail/news programs. YOu'll be able to click on a url and it will load a webpage, or click on an email address and it will compose with say evolution or whatever mail program you have installed.
As for the desktop? It seemed that SO was trying to emulate the windows desktop, which I think was stupid. Anyways
IMHO, openoffice.org is much faster and cleaner than Staroffice 5.2. Out are the integrated desktop and mail/news integration. The releases are becoming more and more similar to M$ office, except for the licensing and price!