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Summary: A real winner!
Review: Star Office 6 is an amazing product. It delivers 99.99% of the functionality of MS Office at a fraction of the cost. I tried importing various MS Word and MS Excel documents without a *single* hitch. Granted, these were not super-complex documents, but headers, footers, tables, columns, etc. all transferred perfectly from MS Word into Star Writer and formulas, cell formatting, etc. all transferred perfectly from MS Excel into Star Calc. While MS Office seems to get more and more bloated with each edition (see Office XP... ugh!), Star Office delivers the goods in a very tidy package. When you consider MS's inflated licensing fees, it really is a no-brainer. Kudos to Sun for creating a wonderful office suite at an extremely reasonable price!
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Summary: Best of Both Worlds
Review: I've been using OpenOffice on my laptop (both the windows and linux versions) for over and year, and I'm impressed. The development of OpenOffice has been a thing of beauty, and I'm currently using their 1.0 release.
Now that StarOffice 6.0 is out, I'd recommend it to anyone (including myself, I'm probably going to be purchasing it soon). Why get StarOffice when you can get OpenOffice for free? A commercial spell-checker that works better than OpenOffice's (which works better than ever, but is still a bit glitchy), commerical fonts for use in your documents, a database module (adabas), more templets, support, more clip-art, and printed documentation. In short, for the minimal charge, you get speedy OpenSource development and commercial support and add-ons. The best of both worlds; this is a killer app.
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Summary: will get it today
Review: As someone else mentioned here, I'm as well going to get this office suite soon, since I'm not pleased with Microsoft's activation & licensing obstructions.While activation/licencing doesn't bother me in case of Windows XP operating system itself, with office application I don't want to tie it to the s i n g l e PC (want maybe use Word and Outlook on one machine, and Excel/Access on another...; or re-install all from laptop to desktop etc... too much potential hassle could arise easily. Since overall ratings for SO 6.0 are 5 stars, I believe I won't be dissappointed neither.
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Summary: SS works for me
Review: I have been using SS for about a month and it has not failed to open a single MS file I tried. I just love it. It works for me on all my machines, including windows, linux and solaris. A good product and a good offer.
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Summary: Alright, It's a great product, if you want to hear that!
Review: ... Alright I'm going to talk about the good features, first of all the price is great, so for the money conscious consumer, it's a good purchase. It contains fair enough applications for doing your daily work task from typing documents to creating a worthy enough slide show. It's more easier to learn than the previous version, so it has really improved since the last version. Of course it takes a little bit of time getting accustomed to but eventually you begin to get the hang of it.The applications open indivdually, which is plus, in previous version the applications opened in task pane format. So if you want a simple suite to do simple and complex things it's the suite for you. One other thing the applications are more uniformed, which is why I think Microsoft Office became so popular in the first place. With more ease of use and more improved features, someday this suite might actually be competing against WordPerfect and MS Office
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Summary: An excellent alternative to Microsoft Office
Review: If you want a Office suite that works on multiple platforms, can work with Microsoft Office formats, AND is cheap, then this is the one! I used StarOffice 5.2 and was unimpressed. But StarOffice 6.0 is a gigantic step towards a true competitor for Microsoft Office. You will not find all the tools that Microsoft has, but there is more than enough here to meet my home and business needs.
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Summary: My favorite office suite
Review: I have both MS Office 97 and Star Office on my computer, and 97 is the last of the high-priced Office Suites that I will buy. Star Office takes a minimum time to learn and has competitive quality. As an open license product, it can be installed on more than one computer at a time. Save your money and switch to Star. Otherwise you're just throwing money away.
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Summary: They are getting VERY close
Review: Our company is switching over to StarOffice in phases, which is why I started using this product. Sun finally gets it right and by the next release will have one of the strongest competing products in the office suite market. I like the full features, and most importantly, the file compatibility between this product and MS Office. Diehard MS Office users who have a heavy investment in VBA customization or complex templates will probably be better off sticking with what they have, but for those of us who use office applications as a secondary function this has everything one needs and at a price that cannot be ignored. As an experienced MS Office user who does not use every one of its features I had no problems adjusting to StarOffice. I like the stability (goodbye memory leaks and reboots), and the fact that I can run it on Linux *and* Windoze. As for Sun charging, this is also a good move because they will now provide better support. While home users might not find this important, businesses that are switching can be assured that the support will be there, making the cost of ownership attractive compared to other office suites. Bravo Sun!
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Summary: StarOffice 6.0 rocks
Review: OK, we all know it had its little Ways, its little idiosyncracies, in 5.2 and before. Good features, if only you could find them. But god in heaven, they've really done a good job with this release. The notorious unified desktop is GONE, they've done something to make the files smaller so you don't clog your hard drive with huge files, and it all just seems cleaner. Conversion from MS Office is slick. Price is fair, I think. Everyone was fussing about Sun charging, but for cripe's sake, it's only [price]. That's a month's worth of lattes. It's worth it. Some of the most useful features are still hard to find. After a year with StarOffice I still have to look up some things every time (how to change to multiple-slides-per-page in Impress, what window some of the tools options are in) so make sure you've got a book. Draw is still great. Image (not separate but in all the apps) lets you do a lot of things really easily, simpler than Photoshop. It's certainly a lot easier to make a color transparent. Schedule went away but it was a little cumbersome, and I'm not sure if anyone used it much. Calc has some major new functions I need to get around to playing with. Logic would dictate that soon only Bill Gates, people under direct orders to waste money, and license agreement masochists will still be using MS Office.
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Summary: It's simply amazing!
Review: This is just the best office suite ever! And for much less than Office from Microsoft. It has everything you need, and the coolest thing is that you can share files between platforms and even office suites!!
Simply wonderful. I had to uninstall my 30-day trial of Office XP - won't need it anymore.
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