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StarOffice 8 set to shine
News Sun plans to release its next version of StarOffice in July, bringing new compatibility with its chief competitor, Microsoft Office. The StarOffice software, which shares the same code base as the open source OpenOffice.org project, is used for...
[May 3, 2005, 9:10]
StarOffice designer launches software firm
News Marco Boerries, who developed Sun Microsystems' StarOffice office suite, is set to unveil his new venture at CeBIT on Tuesday. Boerries joined Sun in 1999 after the computing giant bought StarDivision, Boerries' company that made StarOffice.
[March 12, 2002, 13:52]
StarOffice in the palm of your hand - Boerries
News Marco Boerries, founder of Star Division, the German software developer bought by Sun in August, said the StarOffice suite will be developed for WAP phones, 3Com PalmPilots and Symbian devices to enable access to applications and data from...
[October 15, 1999, 10:05]
StarOffice 6.0 beta review
Reviews Based on what we've seen in this beta release, StarOffice 6.0 can handle most day-to-day office tasks for free - unless want the CD and manuals, which, based on the pricing of previous versions, will cost about £30 (ex.
[February 12, 2002, 23:00]
StarOffice 7.0 review
Reviews Microsoft Office and WordPerfect Office users won't have much trouble mastering StarOffice's interface, which provides the usual assortment of menus and toolbars. A full installation of StarOffice 7.0 requires about 310MB of disk space: 234MB for...
[June 23, 2004, 10:15]
StarOffice 8 release date slips
News Sun will release its next version of StarOffice in September, two months later than originally planned. In May, Sun said that StarOffice 8, which has been in beta since February, would be released in July.
[August 12, 2005, 16:40]
StarOffice enters Solaris orbit
News Sun Microsystems has introduced a version of StarOffice tailored to desktop PCs running Solaris, its Unix-based operating system. The release yesterday of the productivity software, named StarOffice 7 for Solaris x86, comes as Sun tries to position...
[February 5, 2004, 8:45]
StarOffice 8 goes beta
News Sun released a beta version of office productivity application StarOffice 8 on Thursday, which it says provides improved compatibility with Microsoft Office files and a new database front-end tool. StarOffice already allows users to open and save...
[February 18, 2005, 17:00]
StarOffice 8 review
Reviews StarOffice 8 has improved its setup routine for enterprise users. For a single-user system, StarOffice is straightforward to install. For the most part, StarOffice 8 does a sound job of importing Microsoft Office documents, but don't expect...
[September 29, 2005, 0:00]
StarOffice gains smart drive mobility
News StarOffice is one of the latest packages to be offered on the U3 smart drive platform. StarOffice is a proprietary office suite — including spreadsheet, word processor, database, presentation and drawing applications — based on the open source...
[October 13, 2006, 16:35]
StarOffice 5.2 beta available for download
News Sun has added a new player for StarOffice 5.2 software presentations. This allows users to play presentations on any computer, without having to install StarOffice first. StarOffice, which was acquired by Sun last autumn and given away free over...
[April 7, 2000, 13:10]
StarOffice 6.0 review
Reviews With StarOffice 6.0, Sun steps into uncharted territory -- charging money. Although StarOffice lacks a database of its own, it does include an acquisition tool that extracts data from SQL databases and spreadsheets.
[May 20, 2002, 18:19]
Sony dumps MS Office for StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems announced a deal on Wednesday to install Sun's StarOffice software on some European Sony PCs, marking another defection from dominant Microsoft products. By the end of the year, Sony will include version 6.0 of StarOffice on most...
[December 6, 2002, 7:24]
Sun StarOffice
Downloads StarOffice 8 software is an easy to use office productivity suite with powerful word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities. Based on open source technology, OpenOffice.org, StarOffice 8 runs on Windows, Linux and...
[October 3, 2005, 8:00]
Sun eases conversion to StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems is planning new tools for its StarOffice desktop software package that could make it easier to attract Microsoft Office users. The company plans to ship later this year an update to StarOffice that will include converters for...
[March 17, 2004, 10:05]
Sun to give StarOffice Java flavour
News Sun Microsystems is building a Java-based development kit for its StarOffice software to help corporate programmers customise desktop applications, a move that puts it on better footing against Microsoft's dominant Office.
[November 28, 2002, 7:55]
Sun working on StarOffice update
News Sun Microsystems next week will begin offering a trial edition of the next version of its StarOffice software. Sun expects to post the public beta, or test version, of StarOffice 6.1 on its Web site by Wednesday, said Iyer Venkatesan, product line...
[March 10, 2003, 8:35]
Sun muddies StarOffice plans for OS X
News Sun Microsystems, in an email sent to an open-source mailing list on Thursday, backpedaled on working with Apple Computer on the development of a Mac OS X version of StarOffice. In the email, Tony Siress, Sun's senior director of desktop marketing...
[August 2, 2002, 7:56]
Sun's StarOffice adds native Mac support
News With its latest version, Sun is adding native Mac support to its StarOffice productivity suite. StarOffice 9 is open source and its code is shared with OpenOffice.org 3.0, which was released last month.
[November 18, 2008, 9:50]
Sun to push StarOffice for Apple's OS X
News Apple and Sun Microsystems are cooperating on a version of Sun's StarOffice productivity software for Mac OS X, the companies said. Sun has been looking for hardware allies in its long-running quest to popularise StarOffice, which competes against...
[July 29, 2002, 8:55]
