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tomos:
Just a heads up that Softmaker Office 2016 has been released.
http://www.softmaker.com/english/index_en.htm

I havent upgraded myself yet, so not sure what changes.
Also, pricing appears to be different for German locations, so not sure what pricing you will see - probably 89.95 $/€ full price; 59.95 upgrade price (?)

Note:

* 1) there appears to be only the Pro version now
* 2) there's one upgrade price for all (even from free versions)
* 3) they have moved from eMclient to Thunderbird for email
Overview:
http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofw_en.htm

Features
http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofwfeat_en.htm

Looks good to me, I will be upgrading at some stage in the near future.

tomos:
Softmaker Standard *will* also be released in the near future.

See this thread page for discussion of Softmaker Office pricing etc.:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40165.25

4wd:
Considering that the only difference between Standard and Professional in the previous version was four dictionaries and an email client, (which is now essentially a free program included in the suite), you have to wonder how crippled a Standard version will be that would make the creation of it viable.

TaoPhoenix:
Considering that the only difference between Standard and Professional in the previous version was four dictionaries and an email client, (which is now essentially a free program included in the suite), you have to wonder how crippled a Standard version will be that would make the creation of it viable.
-4wd (June 09, 2015, 04:53 AM)
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Going slightly sideways on the topic, I always thought that the best diff split between "standard" and "Pro" was/were a few narrow but insanely useful features, which do chew up dev time to make them usable. I've only come across a few programs like that, but the balance does exist.

tomos:
Considering that the only difference between Standard and Professional in the previous version was four dictionaries and an email client, (which is now essentially a free program included in the suite), you have to wonder how crippled a Standard version will be that would make the creation of it viable.
-4wd (June 09, 2015, 04:53 AM)
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I was wondering how they would approach the Pro/Standard 'situation'.
I cant see them crippling the standard version - I reckon that would be shooting themselves in the foot; yet the Pro version isnt currently offering much more... May be why they just offered the Pro version initially, in the hopes that people would go for it. We shall see...

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