NewsForge: Review: StarOffice 7–Innovation in Action

“Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice 7, released November 12, offers
significant advantages in performance, usability, and stability
over rival commercial office suites, including Microsoft Office.
However, when the comparison is to OpenOffice.org version 1.1, the
open source project from which StarOffice takes its code, it’s
harder to say where the advantage lies.

“StarOffice 7’s new features extend its usability in several
directions. Its improved Microsoft Office filters, while still far
from perfect, are an advance on those in StarOffice 6. Their
results are certainly no worse than the formatting nightmares that
occur between different installations of Microsoft Office because
of the risky combination of a flaky template system and ignorant
users. (No matter the office suite, to be sure of preserving
formatting, send your documents in PDF or PostScript
format…)”

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