The last Sun Java update was a very pleasant surprise, as the update box did advertise OpenOffice.org (the MS Office competitor that has been bootstrapped and is now sponsored by Sun Microsystems). So, here's Sun using its leading(?) position in the Java JVM market to push another product that directly competes with Microsoft products.
I, for one, welcome this, as OOo has the advantage of being open source, and free as in beer. Did I mention you can easily export your documents into PDFs in OOo without the need for 3rd party software? I have yet to see this feature in Microsoft Office, but I think the last MS Office version I used was Office 2003 or so and they might have included that feature since then. Probably the most important reason for OpenOffice.org is the open, patent-free file format. Anyway, here's a screenshot of the Java Updater:
Another screenshot I want to share with you is related to wavbreaker. No, it doesn't currently work (well) on Win32, and there are still some rough edges (forking and killing processes is quite different on Unix compared to Windows), and no output (as wavbreaker currently only supports OSS and ALSA, although I'm working on getting PulseAudio support into it, so we could have a chance of using wavbreaker on Windows via the Windows port of PulseAudio). There are a lot dependencies to resolve (GTK+2.0 and all its dependencies) and drag into your msys/mingw installation before you can start, so I won't go about describing the whole procedure - after all, wavbreaker in it's current state isn't really usable on Windows (only display and cutting works, no audio playback). Anyway, here's the obligatory proof-of-concept screenshot:
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