Friday, January 29, 2010

Many excellent, free alternatives to Microsoft Office

"Many free alternatives to Microsoft Office" is the lead item in my column for WindowsSecrets.com this week.

Reader Louis St. Germain is weaning himself from Microsoft Office and wonders about an office suite from a different vendor:

    * "A friend just told me of KOffice as an alternative to Microsoft Office. It's free (or purportedly so), but it appears to be a beta. Do you have any information you could share?"

There are a surprising number of excellent office software suites available, and some of the best don't cost a dime. In the rest of the article, I discuss Koffice, and my favorites.

Other topics this week include:

  • Problems purchasing hardware for home-built PC
  • Has flash drive encryption been cracked?
  • No-reformat ways to enlarge a C: partition
The lead story in the free edition of the newsletter is why "The long wait for 64-bit PC software continues."

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---Fred

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