Sun’s new push for OpenOffice.org: Coming to a desktop near you

Date October 13, 2007

I support Windows users at my office, so I also have an instance of Windows in Parallels.  I fire it up pretty infrequently, so I’m used to seeing update notifications as there’s usually one waiting each time I log in.  The one I saw today caught me off guard, though:

OpenOffice Java

How bout that!  Sun is not only advertising OpenOffice to all Java users, but they’re promoting OpenOffice over their own StarOffice!  This could do wonders for adoption across Windows users.

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2 Responses to “Sun’s new push for OpenOffice.org: Coming to a desktop near you”

  1. TunnelRat said:

    October 13th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    From what I have heard, OpenOffice and StarOffice are woefully sub-par compared to MS Office. For power users, and many avg. users OpenOffice doesn’t cut it. Otherwise, Apple would stopped subsidizing MS Office for Mac.

  2. Doctor said:

    October 19th, 2007 at 9:28 am

    The intricate dance between Apple and MS has very little to do with software quality.

    OpenOffice is not MS Office, but it’s perfectly adequate for the average user.

    Please don’t FUD us.