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OSNews Recruit Time

Eugenia Loli 2001-11-28 Office 22 Comments

If English is your native language and you are a technology or an OS savvy person, maybe you would like to join the OSNews Crew. OSNews needs people who enjoy writting feature articles, reviews and/or editorials and can deliver at least two or three of these articles each month (guidelines available). If you are up to the task, please let us know. If you are a developer (in this case, we couldn't care less about your native language, let C/C++ talk), who would like to write articles about algorithms, OS-related coding, OS techniques etc, we are also very interesting to host your article.

Introducing Star/Open Office 6

Eugenia Loli 2001-11-28 Office 11 Comments

ConsultingTimes features an article regarding StarOffice 6, which is currently in beta, describing what's new in the new version and also what's missing. "The old StarOffice 5.2 provided integration with a vengeance, taking over your entire desktop in the process. StarOffice 6 follows the more conventional model with excellent cross-application integration. For example, it's quite special that you can start a new spreadsheet or presentation while working on a text document. No other office suite offers such smooth, unobtrusively integration." In related news, the company behind Hancom Office 2.0 released their final beta (107 MB) just a few days ago.

First Beta for gobeProductive 3 Released

Eugenia Loli 2001-11-18 Office 40 Comments

The first Windows beta for gobeProductive 3 Office Suite is now released. The download weighs only 5 MB, and it expires on January 15th. gobeProductive 3 includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, vector and raster graphics editors and a presentation tool. A special upgrade price ($40) will be offered to BeOS users, while the full price will be around $125 USD under the Family License (you can freely install the suite to all your home PCs, plus one PC at your workplace). The Linux version is scheduled for the second quarter of 2002. If you encounter bugs in this beta version, let Gobe know about them, by emailing them and make sure you mention the version of Windows, printer driver and your hardware specs (CPU, graphics card etc). OSNews featured a world's first preview of the office suite just two weeks ago.

Web Services: The Next Big Thing or the Next Big Hype?

Eugenia Loli 2001-11-09 Office 3 Comments

"Just about every software maker has embraced "Web services" as its new mantra in the past year, claiming that the trend will revolutionize business and the use of the Internet. Although it was initially met with skepticism, the idea has gained credibility with the support of such industry leaders as Microsoft, IBM and Sun Microsystems. The stakes are particularly high for the software industry, which is trying to revitalize sales in a punishing economy. But before the concept can take off, companies face an uphill battle in convincing customers that they need Web services--and in explaining what they are." Read the rest of the 4-part feature article at News.com.

World’s First Preview of gobeProductive 3

Eugenia Loli 2001-11-06 Office 38 Comments

Gobe Productive is a well known and the most important third party application in the BeOS world. It is a powerful Office Suite. Gobe (the same developers who wrote ClarisWorks for Macintosh in the past - now called AppleWorks) is now looking for a larger market than BeOS has to offer, and version 3.0 of Productive will be first published for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. A Linux version is scheduled for development and release shortly after the Windows one. This is the world's first preview of Gobe Productive 3 (GP3), with lots of screenshots and a good portion of information about the upcoming product (a public beta version should be released in the near future too).

TheRegister on Windows XP vs Red Hat 7.2

Eugenia Loli 2001-10-30 Office 22 Comments

"If these OS's were cars, XP would be the Warner Brothers Special Edition minivan, and 7.2 would be a Yugo well on its way to becoming a KIA. Damn." This is a... pretty funny article regarding the experience of a TheRegister journalist, trying to compare both RedHat and WindowsXP. Our take: AFAIK, all he had to do was to decrease the PIO mode value of his CD-ROM in his computer's BIOS. After doing that, the Linux installation should have worked just fine.

OSNews Style Guide: How to Submit Articles to OSNews

David Adams 2001-10-12 Office No Comments

IMPORTANT: The following guide is now too old. Please use the new guide instead.

Guide to the specifics and recommendations regarding submitting stories to OSNews. OSNews averages more than 275,000 page views per day (Oct 2005 statitstics), making it one of the main tech news sites online. Submissions to OSNews will gladly be accepted providing they comply with the following style.

Engineering Lessons by Joel Spolsky

Eugenia Loli 2001-09-09 Office 5 Comments

For a good weekend reading, amateur and pro programmers can go to Joel On Software where Joel Spolsky gives a big number of extremely valuable hints about the process of engineering software. Joel Spolsky is one of the initiators of VBA, and led its implementation in Excel. He has recently founded his own company, Fog Creek Software. Anyone who wants to become a really good software engineer should pay a lot of attention to his essays, probably starting with The Joel Test.

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