Applixware seems pretty good but its $99. This is free. I was
surprised that this was a good as it is. Anyway people were saying it
is slow but seems to be not that bad. Not to bad with 64 mb of ram. I
haven't had it long enough to see how the compatibility with MS OFFICE
is. But I do have WP8 and I think this is nicer.
Jeanette
Kuraiken wrote:
>
> Jeanette Russo wrote:
> >
> > Got Star Office 5.0 up and running a boy it is nice! Recommend it for
> > anyone running Mandrake :-) Its a big download and the server seems slow,
> > but it does allow you to restart where you left off in the event you get
> > disconnected.
> > Jeanette
>
> I don't mean to be a "wet blanket" but don't expect too much out of it. It's
> pretty good but there have been reports of instability and some general
> weirdness from friends who use it. One thing which is no real fault of StarDiv's
> engineers is that some MS docs (like word) are not parsed properly - esp. the
> later versions of word. And since it's closed source...
>
> #All software that is not Free, sucks. (free speech not drinks))
>
> Also, for me, personally...I'm more excited about KOffice (XML doc! Yum!) too
> bad I'm not really an "office" user...it's still a long way away though and for
> those needing a good Office suite, Star Office is pretty good. But I also hear
> good things about Applixware's suite. So you might want to check that out too.
>
> Regards,
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