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Hilton Travis wrote:

[brilliant piece of editing, there]

> Unfortunately, I have downloaded Star Office 6.0 Beta and am
> underwhelmed with it.  Very underwhelmed.  It has difficulties opening a
> lot of my MS Word documents, cannot correctly display a lot of
> PowerPoint presentations I have here, does not handle the scroll wheel
> on the mouse and it has a number of "windows" that cannot be docked to
> the menu/toolbars.


It's a Beta.


> Aside from this it is extremely sluggish when loading.


Beta code is full of debugging stuff. Makes it slow.


> And for the killer?  SO6 drops the desktop, browser, mail client, news
> client, 


Hooray! Less cruft!

> frames support in its html editor, 


Hooray! Die, frames, die!

> and the scheduler/PIM support


It'll be back.

> ... then I really don't see how I can recommend it to my
> clients. 


You reccomend beta software to your clients?


> Hilton Travis

-- 
Rob K
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Please abbreviate 'bandwidth' as 'bndwth'
thereby conserving precious bndwth.


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