{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to and from London, I flew on Singapore Airlines&#8217; Airbus A380 and loved every bit of it. The last time I got on one of these planes was when I flew to Sydney. It used to be that the in-flight entertainment allowed for you to play with StarOffice 8, opening and saving documents via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1041,1040,1042,1045,1044,1043,555],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-a380","tag-airbus","tag-airbus-a380","tag-krisflyer","tag-sia","tag-singapore-airlines","tag-staroffice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-qp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}