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Thursday, February 17, 2005

StarOffice 8 Beta: A few nice Windows-oriented changes

I haven't had much time to play around with StarOffice 8 beta yet, but I have noticed a few nice, small changes. The applications are now logically named (i.e. StarOffice Writer instead of "Text Document" and StarOffice Calc instead of "Spreadsheet") in the Start Menu, and there's a new splash screen, for example. But the nicest change I've seen so far is the Office 2003-style toolbars that Sun is now using. They make StarOffice look a lot more like Microsoft Office, and that will likely go a long way towards helping people migrate to this much cheaper solution. Here are a few shots:


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