{"id":1637,"date":"2010-01-11T06:16:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T11:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/11\/staroffice-no-longer-on-the-sias-airbus-a380"},"modified":"2010-01-11T06:16:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T11:16:04","slug":"staroffice-no-longer-on-the-sias-airbus-a380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/11\/staroffice-no-longer-on-the-sias-airbus-a380","title":{"rendered":"StarOffice no longer on the SIA&#8217;s Airbus A380?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to and from London, I flew on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporeair.com\/saa\/en_UK\/content\/exp\/A380\/index.jsp\">Singapore Airlines&#8217; Airbus A380<\/a> and loved every bit of it. The last time I got on one of these planes was when I flew to Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be that the in-flight entertainment allowed for you to play with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Singapore_Airlines#In-flight_entertainment_system_and_communication\">StarOffice 8<\/a>, opening and saving documents via the (powered) USB port. That generally gives me a kick, since its nice to see your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/welcome\/credits.html\">name<\/a> 38,000ft in the air. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desktoplinux.com\/news\/NS2964256534.html\">this<\/a>, it&#8217;s also available on the Boeing 777-300ER. However, I noticed that you don&#8217;t have this option any longer &#8211; it has since been removed.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;d a PDF viewer, a media player (connect your iPod, be impressed), but no StarOffice in sight. I wonder if a licensing deal with Sun Microsystems had something to do with it? After all, no need to license StarOffice, just go forth and use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice.org<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it took some 30 seconds to start up StarOffice the last time I played with it. Could it be due to that, customer complaints got rid of it? I sincerely hope not. Suddenly, the QWERTY keyboard on the gamepad seems a lot less useful&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20StarOffice%20no%20longer%20on%20the%20SIA%27s%20Airbus%20A380%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F01%2F11%2Fstaroffice-no-longer-on-the-sias-airbus-a380&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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