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OpenOffice is a direct competitor of Microsoft Office. It is even mostly compatible with Microsoft Office. It has a word processor, a spreadsheet, a drawing program, a database program, and a presentation program. It has many advanced features, like wizards to guide you, spellchecker, autocorrect, and it can save documents as PDF files. And it's free. How to switch from Microsoft Office to Open Office |
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a mail client that allows you to check your email (pop and imap). It has built-in encryption, junkmail filters, anti-phishing protection, a spell checker, and supports extensions and themes. Thunderbird only replaces the email functionality of Microsoft Outlook, if you need a calendar, I suggest Mozilla Sunbird. |
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Mozilla Sunbird is a standalone calendar program that uses the open iCal standard. Don't forget to grab the Holidays of your choice and check out the many calenders you can download from iCalShare.com. Sunbird only replaces the calendar functionality of Microsoft Outlook, if you need an email client, I suggest Mozilla Thunderbird. |
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AceMoney Lite is a personal finance manager that can track your investments, bills, credit and checking accounts, and provides charts for where your money is going. It can import and export files into multiple formats which is useful for online banking. It also has some support for importing transactions from online e-businesses such as eBay. AceMoney Lite only supports one account. |
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OpenOffice is a direct competitor of Microsoft Office. It is even mostly compatible with Microsoft Office. It has a word processor, a spreadsheet, a drawing program, a database program, and a presentation program. It has many advanced features, like wizards to guide you, spellchecker, autocorrect, and it can save documents as PDF files. And it's free. How to switch from Microsoft Office to Open Office |
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Evolution is an office productivity pack, including an email client, an address book, a calendar (that supports the open iCal standard), a to-do list, and Palm Pilot support. While it is mostly developed by Novell, it remains open source. Evolution supports Microsoft Exchange servers and Groupwise. They are working to bring more integration with the Gnome desktop. Or if you only need an email client, try Claws Mail. |
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