Free Office Based Software Suite on Windows

Most of us are using the Microsoft office on desktop. This is the case on both office and home computers. And for this reason, there are plenty of options out there for you. There are some of the office based suite which can be used on Windows, Linux and Macintosh. At first there was one project named open office. But later on with lack of contribution, you’d find that project eventually got axed by the Sun microsystems. It was one of the good project which had some decent contributions. Also it had some nice set of uses for the office suite. I think the calc app from the office suite has helped the people to have office usage applications free of cost.

Collabora

This application set is based on the Libredocs. But they have developed their own version of the office suite. And they have nice set of features too. It has lot of improvements which are not part of thee libredocs. And the amount of efforts taken by team can show you where it stands. I have found that collabora has been in use for many ways. And it seems to be shipping with many other small distros due to it’s small size. And this can have some potential to replace th typical google docs and the office suite. I think it being free and also offering good features makes anyone wants to use it.

LibreDocs

This is currently the best option one has for the free office suite. The documentation foundation for the documentation standard makes use of this application. And people are spreading these set of file format for the better readability. So that being said, let’s just say if we choose to use this then there is no money to be paid. And also you can make some decent money out of this if you teach such apps. I have found that it is replacing some of the schools with the free software. Not many of the shcools want to use the paid software. And that is the reason i guess Libredocs is in demand.

Google Docs

Don’t expect this to be desktop friendly. But the package is designed to be online use alone. And there are features which can be really useful. Some of the features like ability to use docs and spreadsheet and share it online. That can be one good way to manage the documents. Also it comes with google drive. And this makes use of the storage feature of the site. You can see that it is free upto 15 GB but after that you have to other features.

AbiWord

They seem to have both spreadsheet and the document processor. And they seem to be doing a lot of things good. They have it released free of cost. Though not a lot of good features. But some of the good features that you can use with them. You can use the abiword for many things. It can then later export the format of your choice. Like say excel and few other formats. It can work just fine with those formats. I have found that some of the formats for documents which are open source are possible to use with the abiword. I am guessing that abiword can make some good money out of this if they get crowdfunding.

These are some of the apps that you can use on desktop and web, if you don’t want to pay for microsoft office.

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