Google Docs & Spreadsheets
OpenOffice
Lotus Symphony
SoftMaker Office 2008 for Free
Google Inc said more than 2 million businesses now use its online office software, and the Web search leader is going global on Monday with an advertising campaign to lure customers away from Microsoft Corp and IBM products.
The campaign, which starts Monday in countries including France, Japan and Britain, represents a rare foray by Google into mass-market advertising and underscores increasing competition to provide businesses with email and other office software.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets beta gracefully merges word processing, spreadsheets and basic presentations within an online service that lets you collaborate with other users.
A overview of Google docs can be found here http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html
Google Docs & Spreadsheets beta gracefully merges word processing, spreadsheets and basic presentations within an online service that lets you collaborate with other users.
A overview of Google docs can be found here http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html
I remember when I used to use internet cafes and trying to find a copy of Word on a internet computer was very difficult to print out a document or to work on. I can not understand today why internet cafes now don't make it convenient for customers now with OpenOffice or Lotus Symphony on every computer FREE and save money. A comment I saw on a blog recently MS stops you if your old computer has malfunctioned and you had to go out and purchase a new one in a hurry. That happened to my daughter. She had to have a computer, couldn't wait for an online purchase, so purchased a Vista machine on which the pre-installed MSOffice is a trial version. The trial version is about to run out, and, to get a full license with the functionality that she needs will run her nearly $500. I think it is highway robbery.
OpenOffice
Most people need to use office packages in order to work or to write and organize something. The most popular office package is currently Microsoft Office of course, and according to their standards, the de facto format for word processing is .doc, spreadsheets is .xls and presentations as .ppt files. Of course, any competitor to OpenOffice would need the ability to open, edit and save in these file formats in order to blend in with the world, but it would also newed some other advantages if it wanted some of the market share.
OpenOffice has now become a major competitor of MS Office, having about 8% of the market share, and MS looping up 90% of the rest of the users. This figure is steadily rising, and the main reason is that it’s FREE and OPEN SOURCE! This means that improvements to the suite is always in progress, almost inevitably from it’s users who are free to modify the source code of the suite.
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-You can open, edit and save as the defacto Ms Office formats. OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
So if you are short of cash or just plain stingy, you can have this document software absolutely free.
Download: http://download.openoffice.org/other.html
-You can open, edit and save as the defacto Ms Office formats. OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
So if you are short of cash or just plain stingy, you can have this document software absolutely free.
Download: http://download.openoffice.org/other.html
An alternative to OpenOffice and Microsoft Office
Many times, when organizations do not have the budget to invest in Microsoft Office, they would go for an open source alternative such as OpenOffice.
However, some users said they still preferred Microsoft Office after trying out OpenOffice for a couple of days.
Since cost was an issue, they asked if there are any other office productivity software besides OpenOffice which is free to use.
Well, if you ask me, I’ll say YES! It’s called Lotus Symphony by IBM. Image by cote.
A free office productivity software by IBM? Really? Are you sure? Yes it’s true.
Lotus Symphony by IBM is a business productivity software that is intuitive and easy to use. Best of all, you can download and use it at no cost.
With Lotus Symphony, you have a:
Document Editor
Spreadsheet Editor
Presentation Editor
Application Integrator
And it can be installed on the following OSes:
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Linux SLED 10
RHEL5
Ubuntu 8.04
Mac OS X
A strong feature of Lotus Symphony is its support for industry standard OpenDocument Format (ODF). This ensures that documents created via Lotus Symphony can be supported now and in the future as well. Besides that, it also supports interoperability with Microsoft Office file formats as well as most Lotus Suite applications. It even allows you to export to PDF directly without having to install any 3rd party components.
From the Lotus Symphony’s website, you can view the gallery link to download new cliparts, plugins, templates, etc. Whenever you need any help, the community will be there for you to ask questions, share and collaborate with other users. The original complete article is here http://www.wareprise.com/2009/05/28/an-alternative-to-openoffice-and-microsoft-office/
Get the software here free http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home
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And check out my how to use instructions blog under development with valuable articles for computer users to understand how to use the computer programs like Openoffice, Word, Yahoo mail basics, (Excel, Power Point, XP, Windows, Realplayer, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop are coming) giving you links to easily learn the programs on your computer. http://computerhelpbasics.blogspot.com/
From techsupportalert website..Posted: 17 Dec 2009 This is a pretty impressive office suite comprising a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program and scripting utility. To the eye it looks very like Office XP and it works very well indeed. In fact Infoworld rated it as superior to Open Office 3.1.
SoftMaker Office 2008 for Free
From techsupportalert website..Posted: 17 Dec 2009 This is a pretty impressive office suite comprising a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program and scripting utility. To the eye it looks very like Office XP and it works very well indeed. In fact Infoworld rated it as superior to Open Office 3.1.
Overall this is a pretty decent freebie. No it's not got the extraordinary feature set of Office 2007 but it has just about everything normal users need. The only major component missing is a replacement for Outlook but there are plenty of other free alternatives you can use instead. See here: Best Free PIM Best Free Email Client
How does it compare to Open Office? Well Infoworld consider it to be better the Open Office V3.1.
How does it compare to Open Office? Well Infoworld consider it to be better the Open Office V3.1.
A pretty impressive freebie. http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/softmaker-office-2008-free.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmosbest+%28Gizmo%27s+Best-ever+Freeware%29&utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail
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