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Author: Arrigo Marchiori <ard...@yahoo.it>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 1 08:37:42 2024 +0200
New blog post: Back to the Future Initiative
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+title: Back to the Future Initiative
+layout: post
+date: '2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00'
+permalink: back-to-the-future-initiative
+
+The Apache OpenOffice Development Team is proud to announce that the
+next releases will introduce an important change: a text-only user
+interface.
+
+We all know that today's applications are shifting from local systems
+(desktops, workstations etc.) to the cloud and to browser-centric user
+interfaces. This process does not always increase the overall usability:
+web browsers and related technologies (HTML, Javascript, etc.) still cannot
+achieve the performances of stand-alone applications written in C++ or
+Java, and different browsers often introduce quirks and small problems that
+developers are chasing every day.
+
+Apache OpenOffice is stepping ahead of this process, offering an user
+interface that is actually simpler, and will surely work smoothly on
+any computer.
+
+<p style="text-align: center;"><img
src="/images/back-to-the-future-splash.png" style="width: 30em;"><br>
+The Splash Screen</p>
+
+Linux users are already accustomed to terminal emulators, and connections
+to other computers using protocols such as Secure Shell (SSH) or even
+Telnet in the old days.
+
+Microsoft Windows user will recognize a somewhat familiar look of the new
+interface, that will resemble legacy DOS programs such as WordStar.
+
+The new user interface will be unable to represent bigger and smaller
+fonts, images, and will have a very limited support of colors (currently
+16). It will abandon the outdated WYSIWYG paradigm (What You See Is What
+You Get) and will introduce the new WYSIWYG-WABIT (What You See Is What You
+Get -- With A BIT of imagination).
+
+<p style="text-align: center;"><img
src="/images/back-to-the-future-writer.png" style="width: 50em;"><br>
+The Writer Interface</p>
+
+As this interface will be based on the latest versions of the available
+software libraries, the next releases of Apache OpenOffice will
+unfortunately not support the following architectures:
+
+ - Linux x86,
+ - Windows 32-bit,
+
+but the following architectures will be supported instead:</p>
+
+ - MS-DOS 6.22 on dual-core ARM CPU's,
+ - Windows 3.11 (only on 64-bit systems),
+ - OS/2 on PowerPC.
+
+The proposed release date is April 31st, 2024<sup><a
href="#note1">[1]</a></sup>. More screenshots will be
+available soon.
+
+Stay tuned for more updates!
+
+------
+
+<a name="note1">1</a>: Please note that the US, European Union and many other
countries have
+agreed to set a one-time leap day. This is to compensate a glitch in the
+timing that has been evolved over the past years.
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