Comments on: Oxygen Office Professional http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:13:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Oliver Alexander http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/#comment-200808 Oliver Alexander Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:23:19 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/#comment-200808 The usual (insert free office suite here) hype. Assume I do not even want MS Office file type support. This suite, like most others - also in the Linux world - has one major drawback: it is friggin' SLOW! In MS Office, at least up to Office 2000, Word und Excel pop up as fast as Notepad. I personally reverted even to MS Office 97, where I deleted the splash screens with => ResHack. I even managed to remove the always cumbersome installation process by having all the files, inclusive the dll's on a CD. drag and dop to the Office directory, drag and drop to the Windows\System directory and execution of a registry script (ie., simple double click on a . reg file). Thus, all is very fast right from the beginning. Maybe there are a few features I miss out on, and I do not get tons of clip-art - but do I worry? It suffices for writting letters, making a few calculations with spreadsheets and the odd presentation. The usual (insert free office suite here) hype. Assume I do not even want MS Office file type support. This suite, like most others - also in the Linux world - has one major drawback: it is friggin’ SLOW!

In MS Office, at least up to Office 2000, Word und Excel pop up as fast as Notepad.

I personally reverted even to MS Office 97, where I deleted the splash screens with => ResHack. I even managed to remove the always cumbersome installation process by having all the files, inclusive the dll’s on a CD. drag and dop to the Office directory, drag and drop to the Windows\System directory and execution of a registry script (ie., simple double click on a . reg file).

Thus, all is very fast right from the beginning. Maybe there are a few features I miss out on, and I do not get tons of clip-art - but do I worry?

It suffices for writting letters, making a few calculations with spreadsheets and the odd presentation.

]]> By: Toby Whaymand http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/#comment-196427 Toby Whaymand Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:05:28 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/#comment-196427 Hi, I am into free software and love Open Source. However Star Office is built on Open Office and Sun is a key sponsor of Open Office. but if you make Open Office even more fantasic then it already is wont you lose the market that Star Office needs? Isn't Sun Micro Systems cutting it own neck? Hi,

I am into free software and love Open Source. However Star Office is built on Open Office and Sun is a key sponsor of Open Office. but if you make Open Office even more fantasic then it already is wont you lose the market that Star Office needs? Isn’t Sun Micro Systems cutting it own neck?

]]> By: duryodhan http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/#comment-181084 duryodhan Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:06:43 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/#comment-181084 The thing is : it isn't about whether it supports docx or not. It is how _well_ it supports it. For that matter even koffice supports the MS Office format, but the way they are opened is the worst. MS's OOXml is a joke! The standard is too hard to understand and unclear in terms of how exactly has MS implemented it. So , expecting that anything will be able to read the OOXml files based on the standard is wrong, imho. AbiWord imho, is a better replacement. The thing is : it isn’t about whether it supports docx or not. It is how _well_ it supports it. For that matter even koffice supports the MS Office format, but the way they are opened is the worst.

MS’s OOXml is a joke! The standard is too hard to understand and unclear in terms of how exactly has MS implemented it. So , expecting that anything will be able to read the OOXml files based on the standard is wrong, imho.

AbiWord imho, is a better replacement.

]]> By: Oxygen Office Pro « Troubleshooting PC Problems http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/#comment-180922 Oxygen Office Pro « Troubleshooting PC Problems Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:52:11 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/#comment-180922 [...] a modified version of Open Office with lots of extras that remind me of the extras that ship with Microsoft Office. The extras include more than 3400 images including clip arts and photos, more than 90 fonts, [...] [...] a modified version of Open Office with lots of extras that remind me of the extras that ship with Microsoft Office. The extras include more than 3400 images including clip arts and photos, more than 90 fonts, [...]

]]> By: Roman ShaRP http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/#comment-180819 Roman ShaRP Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:54:38 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/#comment-180819 For Russian speakers exist "Russian Professional Open Office" modification, http://ru.openoffice.org/ For now it lacks .docx support, but in future it may be added. For Russian speakers exist “Russian Professional Open Office” modification, http://ru.openoffice.org/

For now it lacks .docx support, but in future it may be added.

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