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Article #49: A FREE Microsoft Office Clone?

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






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