Re: Windows XP

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been using Star Office for a couple of years.  I like it.  The new
version is definitiely improved.  Originally done in German, the early
translations were awkward and some defaults verged on the bizarre,
Hyphenations are essential in German, but in English they can be ignored,
for example.  The new version has most of that stuff worked out.

Again, as others point out. my needs are simple.  Invoicing, a few
presentations, some HTML, my check book, that sort of thing, and it all
works well and simply.  I installed Star Office on my wife's machine and she
prefers Star Office to Word Perfect.



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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 01:11:40 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Windows XP
From: Chuck Morehead <cbmorehead@nokuse.com>
> How about StarOffice from Sun? Is anyone using it? My understanding is

> that it is free, runs on Linux, Unix (Solaris), and Windows, and works
with
> MS Office apps' formats.

>

> I hopped out to Sun's site and found this:

> IMPROVED INTEROPERABILITY

"improved" implies that it was not perfect, but is getting better (but still
not perfect). I read this to mean that it doesn't quite work with
complicated
documents. I have no specific examples though. Would also like to hear
about actual experience with this.
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