On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:40:36 -0500, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
> Not to mention that it's totally free, and the StarOffice suite includes
> spreadsheet, presentation software, email client, calendar, as well as
> email/newsreading capabilities and much more.
It's crossplatform nature and the fact that it's free are it's
only remarkable qualities. Otherwise it's an incredible resource eater.
Nothing more than resource overhead and yet you have nothing tangible to
really show for it. If I start StarOffice, it uses more resources than
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access all started *together* (I checked this
just out of curiosity). Imagine all that resource just to wordprocess? :(
Furthermore, the wordprocessing is very much like that of Word and the
font rendering leaves a lot to be desired.
Wordperfect 8 is indeed better and Lotus Word Pro has a novel
approach to some things which I personally find appealing. As a result, I
use Lotus Word Pro mainly. I keep Word for compatibility issues. It's such
a darn standard in my country that it's really difficult to avoid using
it. StarOffice I long ago uninstalled, and good riddance. Not *everything*
free and non-MS is worthwhile, unless you really can't afford better. :-)
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