The dominant market offering, Office eventually yielded some popularity when a viable open source competitor, OpenOffice, emerged, followed by another open source option, LibreOffice. How do these open source suites differ from Microsoft Office? Should your office consider one of them, and will they make sense for your users and infrastructure? To help you decide, we compared key features of the latest version of Microsoft’s suite, the Office 2013 Professional edition, to Apache OpenOffice 4.0 and LibreOffice 4.1, both released in July 2013. Subscribe to TechRepublic Top 5 on YouTube for all the latest tech advice for business pros from Tom Merritt.For a long time, nonprofit organizations had a choice of two office productivity suites: Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office. But if you want something free, or offline, or just different, it’s good to know there are other options. You’re probably fine using Microsoft or Google. And it can use Apple’s iCloud for storage and collaborative editing. It includes a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation apps. But if you have a Mac, you have this and it’s not bad. If you’re avoiding all big companies, this is obviously not for you. A paid tier offers more device connections, more storage and access to the PDF converter. The free tier is very good and includes most functions as well as free online storage from its maker, China’s Kingsoft.
This one has a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and PDF converter and works on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. It’s one of the most Microsoft-like suites, without actually being from Microsoft, and it has a sizable user base in Europe. Softmaker offers a free version called, appropriately enough, Free Office, as well as a full suite for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. It works on Linux, Mac and Windows and is completely free.
And it’s excellent at handling older file types. It includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database and math editor. This is widely favored among fans of open source software and people who use Linux as a daily driver. It’s a little bit pricey but you only pay once, no subscription fee. It can save to multiple formats, like DOCX, HTML and PDF and can fully edit PDFs too. It also offers photo editing and management. It has a word processor, spreadsheet and slideshow programs, all in one. Here are five Office alternatives to consider. Listen to the podcast version of this Top 5 episode on SoundCloud And whether you’re looking to save money, get cross-platform compatibility or just be free of the big companies, they’re worth looking at. And Google Workspace is right for a lot of the rest.īut are there - you know - any other choices? The answer is lots. Microsoft Office is right for a lot of people and businesses.
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