“To begin with, just downloading StarOffice is a major ordeal.
It took me about a week to even get a connection to a server for
the download. Then it took another week to finish the five-hour
download, because I was disconnected at least a half-dozen
times.”
“When I finally loaded StarOffice onto my PC’s hard drive, I
found it difficult to use — and lacking in basic features. For
instance, the word-processing program didn’t even have a “word
count” option…”
“Additionally, the version of StarOffice that I ordered was
designed to run on Windows. This minor detail makes me question the
soundness of Sun’s strategy. Does it hope to convert Microsoft
Office users by allowing them to download a product that runs on
Windows? Somehow the logic escapes me.“