You may not have read much about Lotus Symphony - OpenOffice.Org casts a pretty big shadow over other free Office competitors. Like OpenOffice, IBM’s cross-platform office suite is based on the Open Document format and is a very capable alternative to Micorosoft Office.
Symphony doesn’t provide the same number of tools as Office or OpenOffice, but [...]
Adobe has taken the beta label off of its web-based Acrobat.com office suite. And while you can still create and share text documents and presentations for free, you’ll need to upgrade to a paid account for up to $39/month or $390/year to unlock advanced features like the ability to create unlimited PDF files, share larger [...]
While there are dozens of excellent word processors available for Windows, Microsoft Word is the de facto standard. Whether you have Microsoft Office and/or Word or not, odds are you have to deal with Word documents every now and again when someone sends you a file attachment. If you don’t have Word, there are a [...]
ThinkFree offers a cross-platform suite of office applications that can be used on Windows, Mac, Linux, or on the web. And now it looks like the company is developing a full office suite for Google Android as well.
ThinkFree Mobile for Android will provide Google Android users with spreadsheet, presentation, and word processing applications. The application [...]
Google now lets users import .docx or .xlsx files into Google Docs. In other words, next time someone sends you a document created in Word 2007 you don’t need to convert it into a format that your aging copy of Microsoft Word 2000 can handle. You can just load it up in Google Docs and [...]
KOffice is the open source, cross-platform office suite that isn’t OpenOffice.org. You may not have heard much about KOffice unless you’ve used a Linux distribution using the KDE desktop environment. But KOffice and KDE have come a long way in recent years. You can run KDE apps like KOffice in Windows, although installation is still [...]
Zoho has launched a new mobile interface for its web-based office and productivity applications. That includes a mail and calendar app, as well as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database utilities.
To launch the mobile version of Zoho, just visit m.zoho.com in any mobile browser. Or if you just want to see what the interface looks [...]
Microsoft may have extended the retail lifespan of Windows XP several times to accommodate computer makers selling low powered netbooks that balk at the system requirements of Windows Vista. But that doesn’t mean that Microsoft wants to keep supporting an 8 year old operating system forever. And it won’t.
As of today, Microsoft no longer offers [...]
OpenOffice.org 3.1 could be released by the end of the month. But if you can’t wait that long for the next version of this open source office suite, you can download the release candidate which was launched yesterday. It’s available for download from a number of mirror sites, or you can find the Windows installer [...]
ThinkFree Office is a web-based office suite similar to Google Docs and Zoho Office. But the ThinkFree folks set themselves apart from the crowd last year when they released a desktop client that lets you edit documents on your computer and synchronize them with a web server.
Now ThinkFree is back with a Flash-based document viewer [...]
