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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 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 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 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 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]
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 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 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 8 Conversion Technology Preview
Downloads The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview is a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save import to the OpenDocument Format (ODF). This initial plug-in application will support the...
[February 27, 2007, 6:36]
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]
Sun shows new version of StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems is showing Linux fans the next version of StarOffice, the most viable competition to Microsoft's Office package, and will release the beta version in October. Sun acquired StarOffice from Hamburg, Germany-based Star Division in...
[August 31, 2001, 8:51]
Scottish schools get help with StarOffice
Talkback This is an interesting development but I wonder why they are considering Staroffice rather than Openoffice.org as there are no significant differences for most users. I appreciate that educational users will pay only a small distribution charge but...
[May 7, 2004, 12:17]
Sun to charge for next StarOffice
News In a move that could undercut its anti-Microsoft campaign, Sun Microsystems plans to start charging for the next version of its StarOffice software, a suite of programs that competes with Microsoft Office but runs on Linux and Solaris as well as...
[February 26, 2002, 10:10]
StarOffice meets Star Wars
News In a significant win for open source desktop productivity suites, Sun Microsystems Monday announced that the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) would implement up to 25,000 units of its StarOffice 5.2 software.
[June 26, 2001, 14:50]
Sun releases pricing for StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 will go on sale on 21 May with a price of £52.99, the company will announce on Wednesday, in a more concerted effort by the server specialist to take on Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant Office.
[May 15, 2002, 10:14]
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 to drop free StarOffice downloads
News Sun Microsystems is to drop its free downloads of StarOffice 5.2 on Wednesday night, as it ramps up promotional efforts around the fee-based StarOffice 6.0, the company said. In the meantime, Sun and Ximian announced a distribution deal bundling...
[May 27, 2002, 13:33]
