View Comments

1. Ainsley_M

   Posted November 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM

   docs.google.com

   Contains: Document (Word), Presentation (Powerpoint), Spreadsheet (Excel) and Form (Sort of a test maker) Note: This is all online, no download required!

2. Paul

   Posted November 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM

   Google Docs (http://www.docs.google.com). It's online though, so it might not be of use to some people. It comes with a few cool things in it though.

   There's also AbiWord. It's a free word processor, and it's open source. There's nothing with it – just the processor itself. It's for Windows only, to my knowledge. I remember using StarOffice at a time, but it's no longer free, for some reason. Still, here's the link for AbiWord.

   AbiWord: http://www.abisource.com/

3. mohamed_salem

   Posted November 22, 2009 at 4:32 AM

   - Open Office (Portable)
   http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_...

4. John Chorley

   Posted November 22, 2009 at 5:49 PM

   Abiword
   http://www.abisource.com/

   Although it's not a complete package it's a word processing program, I also belive there is a portable version of it as well.

   Office 2010 Beta
   http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default...

   It might be a beta but it's still free at the end of the day.

5. gorskiegangsta

   Posted November 28, 2009 at 4:00 AM

   IBM Lotus Symphony (based on open office)
   http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/sympho...

   Neo Office (Mac OSX only)
   http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/maindownloa...

   Go-oo Office (based on open ofice)
   http://www.go-oo.org/download/

   KOffice (KDE based)
   http://www.koffice.org/download/

6. williammead

   Posted November 28, 2009 at 1:52 PM

   I would say the best package to get is Microsoft office 2010 beta. It looks very good and it is free. It is quite a big file size though and it did not work on my pc.

7. Paul

   Posted November 28, 2009 at 6:12 PM

   Microsoft Office will never be free, recently Microsoft have started releasing RC versions of their software so that people can try it and be lured in for the final purchase. It is good marketing overall and Microsoft are not the first to do it.

   Funny how you recommend it even though you state it didn't actually work?

   Anyway, I am surprised that http://www.zoho.com has not been mentioned on here. Considering Zoho apps are all web based like Google Docs, they really are fully featured and provide a lot more than the Google versions. Give it a try.

8. williammead

   Posted December 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM

   Thanks for that email,I realized I had downloaded the wrong thing and actually it did work.I haven't downloaded it though because I have 2007 already,I will try out the zoho software