This should have very little impact on Koffice. Open source or not, Star
Office lacks KDE integration, which is one of the most important parts of
Koffice.

It's likely they will try and get some integration in it though, but AFAIK
they want to keep the lay-out closely tied to the Windows lay-out (so you
really have one identical application on all platforms). The KDE/Koffice
combination focuses on something else: one identical lay-out for all
applications on the desktop.

The only important issue might be compatibility with document formats. The
suite that can handle Office documents the best way probably has an
advantage over the other.

Can anyone tell me how well Koffice and SO handle these formats?

Rob
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