Google is adding Star Office to the Google pack, available now.
Google Pack is quite a collection that includes Google Earth, Norton Security Scan, Google Desktop, Firefox with Google Toolbar, Adobe Reader, Skype, RealPlayer and other Google products
Sadly the Google Pack is for XP, not the mac, but you can still get a bunch of the apps for the mac.
There doesn’t appear to be any integration between Star Office and the Google Docs & Spreadsheets web applications, but perhaps with time..
Star Office is normally $69 (from Sun), will read MS Office documents, and is, along with Open Office, a free alternative to the Microsoft Office Hegemony. While this will not dent the MS Office sales much, it will take away some of the low end, unless Microsoft gets its pricing right.
If y0u compare this lot with the deal that Xtra subscribers get with Yahoo! Bubble, then it is game over. Not only is the Google pack cooler, and better, but it is also cheaper – as in free.
So why would you pay Xtra anything for their ISP service when their email is moving to Yahoo, their bundled extras are available free and their service is lousy?
Lance Wiggs 