Tuesday, September 8, 2009

office alternatives

1. Apple iWork

2. Zoho Office Suite beta

3. Star Office

4. Corel WordPerfect X4

5. WPS Office

Apple iWork can create your own design from a blank canvas. Choose fonts and add images, graphics, tables, and 3D charts. You can control the text: how it looks, how it flows, and how it wraps around images.

Zoho Office Suite beta has strong potential, but it’s not yet a final product. Zoho makes it easy to share your files with a public URL or feed, or to invite individual users to collaborate on edits

Star Office has powerful and integrated word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities. Read, edit and save Microsoft office files. OASIS OpenDocument format for global compatibility.

Corel WordPerfect X4 is the ideal office software for home and business users, delivering more productivity tools that make your work go faster and your life go easier. It can create polished documents, including letters, reports and newsletters. Produce budgets, invoices, receipts and expense report. Turn complex spreadsheets into charts and graphs that easy to interpret. Create and share PDFs for easy collaboration with anyone, anywhere. It can achieve the full function of Microsoft office.

WPS Office is created by a Chinese company in 1988. WPS is also used as a promotional acronym for “writer, presentation, and spreadsheets” which are the components of kingsoft office. WPS started as a word processor under DOS in 1989. The personal edition is free for download and WPS office storm supports 126 languages.

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http://www.wangchao.net.cn/bbsdetail_1787369.html

http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/index.jsp

http://www.apple.com/iwork/

http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/0,1000001108,39284434,00.htm