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Free Microsoft Office Alternatives

November 8th, 2007 at 01:27 pm

Microsoft office is too expensive and the Monopoly that Microsoft has on the development of quality documents is ridiculous. There are reasonable alternatives out there. The most popular is

Text is open office and Link is http://www.openoffice.org/
open office. Open office was developed by Sun Microsystems a direct competitor with Microsoft on large servers and business systems. This software is distributed free of charge and works almost exactly like all of the office suite.

The second alternative is actually web based and called
Text is thinkfree.com and Link is http://www.thinkfree.com/
thinkfree.com. I have not used this platform as much as open office but what I have seen is pretty impressive. They provide you with a Gigabyte of online space to store information and their online applications work just as advertised. Once again the service is free, all you do is sign up online.

Both of these applications work with the files that are produced by the Microsoft Office suite so you can send them to anyone and they will be able to open them. For most people this is a great alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on the Microsoft product. They both have support for Word, Power Point, and Excel documents and will work in a way that is familiar to anyone that has used the Microsoft products. So the question now becomes, do you really want to pay for Microsoft’s overpriced product?

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4 Responses to “Free Microsoft Office Alternatives”

  1. moi aussi Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 03:19 pm 1194535187
    1194535187

    I love open office.
    Smile I have been using it for a while. But last week, I won Microsoft Office 2007 at school when Microsoft ppl came by.
    Smile

  2. Broken Arrow Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 04:06 pm 1194537967
    1194537967

    I'm a Linux fan so.... Big Grin

    Google also has a bunch of web apps that is worth investigating.

  3. moi aussi Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 04:38 pm 1194539903
    1194539903

    ooh I love linux too BA. That's what I mostly use. They have open office for linux as well. For my class, I am doing a research on Google web toolkit.

  4. Mulyanto Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 07:58 pm 1194551930
    1194551930

    I've developed software on (and for) both linux and windows. Windows is much nicer of an environment to work in. It is definitely not perfect and linux has its advantages. Apple's iWork is not bad either (and cheaper than MS office) but it's not free. And it only works on macs. I've used open office, and it's ok, it does not have all the features that MS office has, but you can't complain much about something that's free I guess.

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