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Forwarding to Tony the two answers by Rob and Dennis, see below. Tony, 
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On 27/11/2012 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> I've installed Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 on the release version of Windows 8 Pro (64-bit) and I have seen no difficulty.  The tiles for the icons look rather nice on the start page.
>
>   - Dennis
>
> PS: There is no Java installed by default in Windows 8, although an OEM might include it.  I haven't run into anything in my personal use of AOO 3.4.1 that has that be a problem.  Others who depend on Java-based features will need to install Java.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robweir@apache.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 16:11
> To: users@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Platforms..
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Tony D'Ambrose<tonyjd@mchsi.com>  wrote:
>> Openoffice,
>> I've been using this for a number of years on Win 7, and Vista.
>> I'm in the process of upgrading to Win 8 and was wondering if
>> you were going  have an upgrade for Win 8.  Thank you.
>>
>
> We tested 3.4.1 with the pre-release version of Windows 8.  It worked
> fine, as a desktop (non-Metro) application, once you got past the
> initial security warning dialogs.
>
> We're not planning a special update for Windows 8.
>
> -Rob
>
>> Tony (tonyjd@mchsi.com)
>

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