Rating: 
Summary: Near Best and Can be better Best
Review: I using the download ver. 7, excelent in every basic requirements compare to MS-Word and some area exceed MSWord such as multiplate OS compatible (my test Linux, Win2K).
Other advantages:
- I can set defaults to specific file format.
e.g. set to MS Word
and open under word with no problem.
- Effortable.
- OS(es)
- As Developer: it open doc. Here the near perfect:
- Unicode - when copy/pase not automaticly change fonts.
- Cannot save fonts with the document
- create table not ease of use nor flexable format. Don't:
**** I can install in difference computers :-) ***
Rating:
Summary: An excellent product
Review: I work on documents in the 3,000-30,000 word range, and I heavily use a lot of word processor features like footnotes/endnotes, tables and references, indexes, version control, etc. We've all experienced in MS Word when you make one small change, it breaks the formatting of the entire document - noone knows why this happens, but it does. It's never happened to me in StarOffice, and that alone is a good enough reason to make the switch. Also, if you publish to PDF that is built into StarOffice, no need to spend the extra money on Adobe - and StarOffice is a fraction of the price of MS Office anyway. I would say you get 90% of the features of MS Office for about a quarter of the price. I've never had any trouble importing documents from Word or Excel, I can't comment on PowerPoint importing because I've never tried it.
Rating: 
Summary: Not to happy with the software
Review: The problems I had with this product are as follows; it has problems converting some cells over to MS Excel and gives invalid data. This happened numerous times and left me wondering what other data was changed. It is slow starting and uses a lot of machine while running. Overall, I went back to MS Office, because it works. This is to much tinkering....
Rating: 
Summary: Some things missing
Review: Since this is the best choice you have after the MS offer Sun forget to consider more OS Upport (OS/2 which had support when Sun bougth Star Division) Lotus Smart Suite filters, macro compatibility (i don't want the viruses, but many ppl used to have lot of macros and depends on them for every day work). I would love to see those think fixed, specially the OS/2 support
Rating: 
Summary: Let Microsoft Eat Cake
Review: Star Office is one of the best apps around for the price. Although users may have to make an adjustment here or there, but it is well worth the low... low price. I use Unix, Linux, and Windows for my department projects. I'm no longer limited to a system because my documents will open regardless of what OS I'm running. Good job Sun!!!
Rating:
Summary: awesome product
Review: this is not only as good as xp but it is one fifth the price and that speaks volumes . no more blue screen of death . no more force fed bundled software that tries to takeover your options by making other software products incompatible with them. freedom at last.
Rating: 
Summary: An affordable alternative to MS Office, but...
Review: With the availability of StarOffice's kissing cousin, the open-source OpenOffice, Sun's application is all but redundant for all but those who insist upon a corporation around to back a product. Mind you, $80 for an office suite is a tremendous bargain in lieu of buying a comparable suite from Microsoft, but given that OpenOffice is virtually the same package and available for free (granted, it pays to have a high-speed connection), StarOffice doesn't seem like the ultimate bargain it pretends to be. I use both OpenOffice and MS Office XP Pro; files are easily interchangeable between the two, and I've yet to have had a problem with OpenOffice that its broad user/developer community on the internet hasn't already come up with an answer for--all it takes is a good search engine like Google, and the solutions are a few clicks away. Emailing a tech support for help on a corporate release may take hours if not days to obtain a resolution...and that's worth $80??? Well, I suppose now there's someone to sue if things go terribly wrong...
Rating:
Summary: Use Open Office - It's Free!!!
Review: If you want an alternative to MS Office, that is also compatible with MS Office, use Open Office. You can find it under the Google search term Open Office. It's a free download, and just as good as Office 2003. You get a Word application, a spreadsheet application, and a PowerPoint application. All are compatible with Office 2003.
Rating:
Summary: Uses Java
Review: I find the buttons in the window applications very difficult to read. This software uses java which is very slow and buggy. Plus, if you try to convert MS files over, something is always changed, which this poses a big problem. In the end it is best to use MS Office, it actually works.
Rating:
Summary: Perfectly adequate...Ignore reviews by "ar user" below.
Review: Considering the price, StarOffice 7 works just dandy. I have no real complaints. Exporting to PDF is fantastic, considering that I personally don't like Adobe's software. At 75 bucks you really can't go wrong by giving this a try, since Microsoft gouges people with their outlandishly priced bugware. And, by the way, "ar user" below who reviews this item (twice!) and claims it's horrible must be a phony reviewer who is obviously trying to stack the deck for Microsoft. Check out the guy's other reviews. All he reviews is Microsoft operating systems and software, and different Linux releases, and that's pretty much it. Everything by MS is "awesome" and anything Linux-related is junk, according to him. Obviously not a very believable source, and painfully obvious to boot. I never knew anybody who liked Microsoft THAT much. Sounds like Bill's wife, for cryin' out loud. I wonder if Amazon knows about this chicanery.
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