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The Best Free Software for Windows

This site is updated regularly. Last update: September 3, 2007.

All of this is free software - completely and totally. No shareware, no nagware, no adware.

Reviewed constantly, categorized conveniently, with always-current links and versions.

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10/19 - New Category! Best Free Web-Based Informational / Educational Applications

10/17 Everybody's favorite free word processor, (well, a lot of people's), AbiWord, now has a grammar checker. Mobility Email, a portable email application based on Thunderbird. KeePass, a great, open source password manager.

10/13 ThinkFree Office Online - Free Web-based Word, Excel and Powerpoint clones

10/12 A new, powerful, to-do list manager is out and it's truly excellent. Remember The Milk

10/11 The web applications section continues to expand with collaboration tools and internet / network applications and utilities.

10/10 AbiWord, the excellent word processor, is now available in a portable version.
- Tiny, powerful, portable BitTorrent client, µTorrent.
- Encrypt specific files or folders on your USB flash drive with Remora USB Disk Guard.

10/7 Is OpenOffice Writer Better Than Microsoft Word? -article-

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Is OpenOffice Writer better than MS Word?

OpenOffice Writer 2.0 vs. Microsoft Word 2003

OpenOffice WriterMicrosoft Word The common wisdom of OpenOffice vs. Microsoft Office can be summed up in a few, choice phrases.

  1. OpenOffice is probably good enough for most users.

  2. Microsoft Office costs several hundred dollars, but you can get an educational version for 150 without having to prove you have anything to do with education.

  3. Hardcore Excel users don't think Calc is good enough for their needs.

  4. OpenOffice saves to PDF files. MS Office doesn't.

  5. Though OpenOffice can open and save to Office formats, tricky stuff like advanced tables or headers and footnotes might not format properly. read more...

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