Sun StarOffice 5.2 Full Version for PC, Unix

Pros: A Powerful (No longer) FREE Office package that is compatible with Microsoft Office
Cons: Missing Visual Basic features, All-or-Nothing applications

NOTE: I had to come back and edit this review because Sun is no longer offered free, although it is still a great deal. The rest of the review remains intact.

Now you can download Star Office 5.2 Suite directly from Sun Microsystems website -...

Pros: All the average home user or small business owner needs
Cons: No grammar checker.

I won't repeat what the others reviewers have explained so well about the functionality of this product. I will relate my experience with StarOffice 5.2.
I run a Linux box at home and StarOffice is the only office suite installed. I started with...

Pros: Stable, saves in many popular formats including MS Office, tons of features, free
Cons: not intuitive, help files inadequate

Star Office 5.2 is a complete office suite offered by Sun. The amazing part is that it's a fully functioning program, and available for download completely free of charge. There are no nag screens; and, if you choose the option upon downloading the...

Pros: Excelent, comprehensive and office compatible productivity suite, multi-platform, open-source, free or cheap.
Cons: Steep learning curve, not helped by spotty documentation, lacking in some MS-Office like features.

When I first fell in love with Star Office, it was around the release of 5.0, and the subsequent release of 5.1. This product became to me, what Office means to just about everyone else (my ONLY productivity suite).

Features
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Pros: PRICE!, Compatibility
Cons: Learning curve can take awhile.

First off... this won't be a comparison between StarOffice and Microsoft Office. I'll just throw out my opinion that when you compare price -vs- capability... StarOffice takes the cake in a landslide victory. Even Al Gore couldn't contest this one.
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Pros: The Price, It's Functionality!
Cons: No Grammar Check, Opens as Desktop

What can I say, I have a soft spot for Freebies. This one is one that I've been deliberating over or months now. I've installed it, uninstalled it... probably a dozen times now. The thing that keeps me coming back is that it simply is a good program!...

Pros: Free!!! Superb for the price.
Cons: Confusing interface. Not as good as Microsoft Office

Star office is the best free office suite available. It is a must use if you do not want to spend a lot of money and can easily do everything that Microsoft office does and some more things. It is very well integrated but quite heavy on system...

Pros: free, can handle a variety of file formats
Cons: should have stuck to just the application part

When I bought my first PC in India, it came bundled with every software imaginable .. Adobe Photoshop, M$ Office, Norton anti-virus, M$ Windows 95, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Pagemaker and I could have more "installed" just for asking ... the ideal...

Pros: Runs on every OS, free, comparable to Microsoft's productivity suite!
Cons: Huge download, no grammar check, slow start up and saving

When I built my first computer, I wanted to install an office suite that would work on all three operating systems that I would use (Windows NT, 98 SE, and Linux Mandrake), and one that would be free. I scoured the web and found Sun's StarOffice 6.0...

Pros: Compatible with Office files. Easy to open different file types from one screen.
Cons: Takes some getting use to....

I’ve been using StarOffice 5.2 for two weeks now and I move around it like a pro.
Unlike most people, I went to Best Buy to pick up my copy of StarOffice 5.2.
Why? I’m too cheap to get another phone line put in and I hate long downloads....

Pros: Ease of use, great compatability, reliable, and CHEAP!
Cons: I'll let you know if I find any.

I'm going to start off with this: I love MS OFFICE, in fact it is the ONLY Microsoft product I truly cherish, OK, enough said about that.

Recently my old 233mhz gave up the ghost, and I found it necessary to buy a new computer. I had MS 97...

Pros: Fully integrated, multiplatform, FREE
Cons: Somewhat challenging to learn for the first time

The future of software in the Internet age is cross-platform applications which aren't sold but which are freely distributable throughout networks. That's what Star Office is, and that's why this rising star will outshine its rivals.

To begin...

Pros: Inexpensive (or free to download), well-supported and somewhat platform independent.
Cons: None.

Who's going to pay hundreds of dollars for Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office when they can get the same functionality for little or nothing? And if no one will, why would these companies develop such suites? Thank Goddess for the open source...

Pros: Has a lot of software
Cons: ?

If you have never tried Star Office then I would suggest that you try it today. Some of the features that Star Office includes are spread sheets, Data Bases, Presentation software and a personal office manager. The word Processor in this program is good....