Re:Ooh! Ouch! Seriously, guy, you owe it to yourself to get the version 6.0 beta. It towers above version 5.2, with which I suffered grievously last year, in terms of reduced bugs and interface and feature improvement. And they got rid of the lousy desktop thingy. What the heck were they thinking, anyway? Of course, I do know people who liked that, but… to each his own.
- Collin Re:Yes, indeed. I examined and tried the Software602 suite for a while, too. I thought it was excellent, and I think most personal users would be extremely well-served by this suite — especially if they don't absolutely require the ability to exchange files containing advanced formatting features with Microsoft Office users. I found it to be "light", quick, and quite intuitive to use. And, like StarOffice, it's free. You pay for the add-ons to expand its usefulness, but even those are quite cheap.
- Collin Re:i just installed SO for winxp, and i have to say i like it. i have office 2000 academic, but since the # of license thing limits me, i let my bro use it at home (he doesn't wanna fool with new software now). SO is very nice so far, and since I'm an english major, i dont need advanced features in my office suite, instead i obey all the <rant> commands </rant> and try to make my content make sense. so the fact that i can save my term paper as a .doc is a big plus for me, since my whole school/comp labs/printers deal with M$ word exclusively. Re:Workin' is mighty right on this. Even some fairly simple stuff in Excel doesn't translate well to the StarOffice spreadsheet. An example would be the merge cells features. Things like that did cost me a fair amount of time in going back and forth when I was still using the version 6 beta.
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