>Basically, no. You have to start up the whole "interface" ... SO is
>rather unfortunately bloatware. It even has its own window manager,
>believe it or not. Of course, it probably doesn't load all the
>presentation tool code right away unless you actually open a
>presentation document. But when you get right down to it, SO is heavily
>bloated.
undeniably, bloatware. but, it works, and right now nothing else comes
vaguely close to the same office9x compatibility.
it turns out that not one but two departments on campus have bought
*campuswide* licenses. so, anyone, anywhere on campus can use any
version of any SO product, legally. not that that really changes anything
i guess =). i'll be figuring out the "net install" features sometime in
january and will share my experiences with the list.
>so I'll be quite glad when WordPerfect 8 is out. I've been using WP
WP is a fine wp.
>It's unfortunate that SO is so bloated and slow. If WordPerfect 8 can
>convert MS Word 97 documents, I'll be able to wipe (150+ megs of) Star
>Office off my disk.
while i certainly hope it can and does, the prerelease of v8 didn't.
v7 didn't. i have low hopes :(
and SO will continue to be useful for exporting to office97 formats,
as well as reading powerpoint etc files, as well as running in a web
browser on a mac or anything java-enabled. (there's a java-only version)
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