| A Free Microsoft Office Clone? | | | | Office for an Open Source, Microsoft Office |
| | | | Clone you have got to know that this Office |
| By: OPEN2XL | | | | Suite is no Joke. It also begs to be asked |
| | | | why are we paying $399 and for paid upgrade |
| If your budget is limited and you need a full | | | | after upgrade? There is no longer any need to |
| features Office suite, we know of one that | | | | do so; it is now only a choice. When I let |
| has got everything you might conceivably | | | | people know about Open Office people have two |
| need. The deeper question, is whether anyone | | | | reactions, absolute joy or utter disbelief. |
| will ever need all of these features. It's | | | | It is hard to come to grips in todays |
| nice to know that a FREE Office Suite of | | | | consumer driven world that there is free |
| applications has probably more to it than you | | | | solutions out there that meet in some aspects |
| will actually need or use. The Office Suite | | | | exceed the paid for solutions. For more |
| is called Open Office. It is a free open | | | | information simply go to Google and type in |
| source office suite that is taking on | | | | OPEN2XL. |
| Microsoft Office head to head. It is dubbed | | | | |
| the Microsoft Office Clone as it will let you | | | | There also is the segment of computer users, |
| read, print, write, edit and save in all the | | | | even small business that have had to resort |
| native Microsoft Office formats! Can you | | | | to using multiple installations of a single |
| imagine? | | | | copy. Most people just cannot afford to pay |
| | | | all that dough for the tools that they need |
| Some say about Microsoft Office, who would | | | | and honestly see any other way. |
| ever need all that stuff. It may be true that | | | | |
| one person could never use everything that is | | | | Open Office (The Free Microsoft Office Clone) |
| included in todays modern Office Suite | | | | is helping many people and small businesses |
| applications. What is not common is to get | | | | to be liberated from their (illegal copies) |
| all of them for free! People it seems would | | | | of Microsoft Office. Since The free Microsoft |
| be more inclined to pay $399 for Microsoft | | | | Office clone can read, print, write, edit and |
| Office Professional because it does have | | | | save in native Microsoft office formats there |
| everything, including all the stuff you may | | | | is no need to keep illegally copied office |
| never use. Does that really make it worth | | | | suites on computers any longer. It is hard |
| $399? I don't think so, as does not several | | | | for one to not have Microsoft office when at |
| thousand of other users and business alike. | | | | the time of this writing 90% of word |
| Even such big business as: | | | | possessing is done on Microsoft Office and |
| | | | one needs it to read, print, write, edit, and |
| Boeing | | | | save in Microsoft Office formats. Not being |
| | | | able to accept Word Documents or Excel files |
| Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) | | | | is tough in deed, especially if you are a |
| | | | small businesses! With Open Office the Free |
| Sun Microsystems | | | | Microsoft Office Clone you do not need |
| | | | Microsoft Office (legal or otherwise) to be |
| The Australian Phone Company | | | | able to receive and create Word, Excel, Power |
| | | | Point, and Front Page documents. |
| The U.S. Department of Defense | | | | |
| | | | What more can I say? |
| The entire municipal government for the city | | | | |
| of Munich (Germany) | | | | I think I will close this article with this |
| | | | question: Why would you keep on paying |
| That is nothing to sneeze at. When the big | | | | hundreds of Dollars for Microsoft Office when |
| corporate giants start leaving Microsoft | | | | you can get a free Microsoft Office Clone? |