Alternative for Microsoft Office
Kingsoft Office Suite Free
Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012 is perhaps the most versatile free office suite, which includes free word processor, spreadsheet program and presentation maker. These three programs help you deal with office tasks with ease:Writer - Efficient word processor; Presentation - Multimedia presentations creator;Spreadsheets - Powerful tool for data processing and data analysis
Download Link - http://www.kingsoftstore.com/download/office_suite_free_2012.exe
Apache Open Office
Apache OpenOffice 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 allcommon 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.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. You, too, can get involved!
NeoOffice for Mac
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Only install the versions of NeoOffice that are listed on their web site. Please do not install an unlisted version even if you downloaded it from this web site in the past. Using such unlisted versions is very risky as unlisted versions have bugs that we have fixed in the listed versions.
Download Link - http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/mirrors.php?file=NeoOffice-3.3-Intel.dmg
Google Docs
Google Docs is an office productivity suite that lets anyone with a Google account create, share and collaborate on the Web. Google offers tools for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings and forms, all centrally stored and accessed via the cloud-based storage service Google Drive.
KOffice
KOffice - is an integrated office suite based on the platform KDE. He uses the Free Application OpenDocument. KOffice - free software.
KOffice features with a full set of applications that work together without overlapping, to improve the user experience with applications. Each program in the suite of KOffice - a component that adds more functionality to the set. You can embed any KOffice component in any component of KOffice, using the model of the object KParts from KDE.
SoftMaker Office
SoftMaker is a company that creates a very good alternative to Microsoft Office. They offer two different paid versions of their software, as well as a free version. Another thing they do, which is unique, is they allow free downloads of their previous versions of software. Their free office suite is named no other than
FreeOffice.
The benefit to downloading this as opposed to other office suites they’ve created and sold, but are not free, is that FreeOffice is in and will continue to be in constant development, whereas older suites are, in their words, “frozen.”
ThinkFree
ThinkFree has web based and mobile apps as well as one for download. Don’t get the online and local versions confused. Contrary to what the name may imply, and although it’s a reputable company, the version for download is not as free as you may think.
Note: KOffice is the older version of
Calligra Suite, which was covered on MakeUseOf for
popular Linux office suites. Both are fantastic and Calligra Suite does have some differences. If you are interested in one of these two, I recommend you try them both out to see which one
Lotus Symphony is another one of the “popular trio” desktop applications. It has been around for a while and seemed to be popular among Linux users for a while until OpenOffice came about. It still is a decent alternative if you enjoy trying out different software, but it isn’t my favorite by any means.
