Finally, something positive! StarOffice 9 works.

Over the weekend I removed OpenOffice and LibreOffice from all the machines under my control. Instead of that cluster#$@% of bugs I installed Sun Microsystems' Star Office 9 that I sagaciously bought years ago.

The UI of SO9 is identical to OO4, for all practical purposes. It lacks a few side panels that can be enabled in OO4, but they are insignificant for daily use. SO9 also lacks the deluge of complete show-stopper bugs that OO and LO are ripe with.

Finally, spell checker, mail merge, and export to PDF work as expected, without painful surprises.

Boo hoo, Apache! You had taken a perfectly working Sun's software and foobared it. How much crack had you bought for Microsoft's 30 silver?

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