2007/8/19, Manfred J. Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi *,
>
> M Henri Day wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > From what I understand, the few features unavailable in OOo that are
> > available in Star Office are not of major importance for most users.
>
> A 'new thing'/extension is SunSearchToolbar.oxt ("powered by Google" -
> 77 KB) ->
>
> ...\Sun\StarOffice_8\share\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages\<xy>.tmp_\SunSearchToolbar.oxt
> as an integrated document-, desktop- and websearch
> (... it will be necessary to take out time to see more ... btw, it was
> not difficult - perhaps not legal - to import it in OOo 2.2.1 ... for
> a try ...).
>
> > The
> > really important question is that posed by Manfred - what will be the
> effect
> > on MS Office, or rather, that suites nearly total dominance of the
> corporate
> > market. If Google's backing of the Star Office suite can contribute to
> > destroying this hegemony, it will be of great service to us all, both
> users
> > of OOo, users of MS Office, and those who use both....
>
> For those ones, who are interested in these and further aspects -
> here is 'a beginning of some stuff' ->
>
> August 14th, 2007 -
> Sun/Google and Adobe now gunning for Microsoft Office
> Posted by Mary Jo Foley
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=641
>
> August 14th, 2007 - Microsoft Office is dead meme revived
> Posted by Dan Farber
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5948
>
> ... and last but not least →
> »MS Office will be among us in 300 years ...«
> http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/08/why-microsoft-s.html
>
> ManfredThanks, Manfred, for your reply and the links ! The ZDNet articles I had seen, as for some reason (which I myself do not fully understand, as their blogs seem, with a few honourable exceptions, designed to contribute more heat than light to a subject), I try to keep up with their publications. The «Geek and poke» cartoon was new to me, however - a delightful acquaintance ! The best thing I personally have seen on Microsoft products, even though it does not specifically deal with Office, is David Gutteridge's perceptive article entitled Windows is free <http://tlug.jp/articles/Windows_Is_Free> ( http://tlug.jp/articles/Windows_Is_Free) from TLUG. Excuse me for cross-posting if you or other users have already seen it !... Thanks also for all the work you and your colleagues are doing for OOo. It is highly appreciated ! Henri
