Linked by William Ku on Sun 16th Jun 2002 18:45 UTC
You may have heard of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice which is being offered as a viable and cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office. Openoffice.org is the open source (or, free indefinitely) cousin of StarOffice. Staroffice used to be free as in you can freely download and install in as many computers as you like but Sun Microsystems has recently decided to charge for Staroffice. However, please do not fret as Openoffice.org will always be free and we are going to show you in this article how and why Openoffice.org instead of MS Office and StarOffice is for you.
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"That read more like an advertising brochure than a review."
Exactly. It looks like this can fill the needs of most average Office users, but what about the power users? Does it support macros, customizable menus/toolbars, etc? Does it have anything resembling VBA, where you can create visual forms in documents/spreadsheets/etc?
What I woudl love to see is a side-by-side feature comparison between this and MSOffice, along with the other office suites such as StarOffice, KOffice, and the one that comes with Gnome (AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc .. is this all one suite or just seperate apps?)
I gotta say that Math program looks pretty snazzy and better than MS Word's Equation Editor, but I wonder if it can go toe-to-toe with MathType (the commercial version of Equation Editor).