Google removed StarOffice and made Google Desktop and the screensaver opt-in.
http://pack.google.com/ |
Do they exclude StarOffice/ OpenOffice because it's competing with Google Docs? |
I don't think so (StarOffice has been added last year and the situation was similar). Probably many users had trouble installing/uninstalling the software: http://groups.google.com/group/google-pack/search?hl=en&group=google-pack&q=staroffice+error&qt_g=Search+this+group |
Sun will publish StarOffice 9 soon. maybe that is the reason. |
Hope its OK if I add here that this news is via Digital Inspiration:
labnol.org/internet/free-staroffice-removed-from-
google-pack/5260/
[Ionut's source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-pack-adds-staroffice.html#c185985121630775055] |
Strange, I have met various people who for various (strange) reasons had installed the whole google pack and it solved lots of problems often (a few of them only had wordpad before that and there was a small problem with file associations... don't ask me why or how and that was how I realized.) |
Guys which one is better OpenOffice.org or StarOffice . i m bit of Confuse which one to use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
OpenOffice and StarOffice are more or less the same.
OOo is free. SO costs about 70 $
Star Office has lots of template included.
But you can get templates for free for ooo too
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/templates
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I'm very surprised they would test one without Adobe Reader. |
According to tweakers.net the unofficial reason for this is that sun will not bundle its runtime environment with the msn toolbar |
Follow-up:
Google Pack, a Reward for Google's Partners?
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-pack-reward-for-googles-partners.html |
[moved from new thread "No more Staroffice/Openoffice in google pack"]
http://www.intern.de/news/neue--meldungen/--200811114728.html
Star Office in Google Pack had been an anachronism, same applies to Google Pack in toto. If they cared about Google pack, wouldn't they add Chrome to it? |
Hmm, maybe Sun is mad?,
http://www.pronetworks.org/index.php/content/post/sun_switches_search_google_to_microsoft/
"Which came first — Google dropping StarOffice from its Google Pack or Sun agreeing to distribute Microsoft’s Live-Search-powered MSN toolbar with the Java runtime? We’ll probably never know (at least until Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz blogs about it). But the new deal, announced on November 10, between Sun and Microsoft is ironic, if nothing else, given the twisted history between the two over Java." |
