Sun Microsystems' Star Office Now Incorporated Into Google Pack

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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