Star Openoffice.org 1.0 Review - Review your Options
Linked by William Ku on Sun 16th Jun 2002 18:45 UTC
Features, Office 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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by rajan r on Tue 18th Jun 2002 14:14 UTC

I actually use it home, instead of M$ Office XP, and the only thing I miss is a better spellC.
The drawer _can_ save to .jpg, but Gimp and PhotoShop is for images and should not be compared to draw. Also its slower than office most of the times, (starting up, that is) but office loads some stuff in mem. when starting windows, and the quick-start helps.

By default, MS Office doesn't load up in the memory. MS Office has the advantage over OpenOffice.org because it uses standard Windows components, instead of custom ones made by OpenOffice.org. That standard Windows components can be used by OpenOffice.org, but they didn't to ease porting. Also, another reason was to have a standard consitent UI across platforms (but anyway, just like Office not having a standard Windows UI, OpenOffice.org isn't forced to use the standard UI if it uses Win32 extensively for the Windows version; and still have a cross platform consitency). (BTW, it has been said that Office uses two secret APIs in which Code Weavers found out; but I doubt just because of two APIs performance is greatly increase. Also, the people making the claims failed to prove it)