PR Newswire: Star Division Extends Its Popular Free Office Software Campaign With The StarOffice 5.0 FilterUpdate | Linux Today

PR Newswire: Star Division Extends Its Popular Free Office Software Campaign With The StarOffice 5.0 FilterUpdate

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 3, 1999

“New Version Now Available in Four Languages With Improved
Import and Export Capabilities for Microsoft Office 97(R)”

“StarOffice 5.0 is a premium office productivity suite that runs
native on all major operating environments including: Windows
95/98/NT, Solaris, Linux, OS/2, and Java. It has a fully integrated
set of powerful applications including, word processing,
spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations, database front-end,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, event/task scheduler, charting, and
a formula editor. StarOffice features a familiar and intuitive user
interface, allowing existing Microsoft Office users to be
productive immediately. Additionally, powerful document filters
provide seamless interoperability with the Microsoft Office
products including Microsoft Office 2000. For more information on
StarOffice 5.0 please visit www.stardivision.com/office.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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