Google Pack, a list of softwares which are specially chosen by Google now includes Star Office, which is a very popular office suite that is designed by Sun Microsystems.
Softwares available in Google Pack are:
- Google Earth
- Norton Security Scan
- Google Desktop
- Firefox with Google Toolbar
- Adobe Reader
- Skype
- StarOffice (includes Javaâ„¢)
- Google Toolbar for IE
- Spyware Doctor
- Picasa
- Google Photos Screensaver
- Google Talk
- Real player
Though Star Office sells at $70.00 through Google Pack it comes for free.
In the words of Ionut Alex Chitu :-
"It will be interesting to see why Google didn't choose to include OpenOffice.org, the primary difference between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org being that StarOffice includes some proprietary components like clip-art graphics, fonts, templates and tools for Microsoft Office migration.
The next step would probably be the addition of a plug-in that lets you synchronize local documents with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, so you can have the best of the both worlds: edit complicated documents offline, collaborate and store files securely online. For now, StarOffice is integrated with Google Search and Google Desktop."
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