The 5 Alternatives to Microsoft Office

1. Corel WordPerfect Office X4

• Description: Corel® WordPerfect® Office X4 is the supreme office software for home and business users, conveying more efficiency tools tha makes your work better and your life better.
• Link:http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1207676528492#tabview=tab0

2. StarOffice 8

• Description: "a full-featured office productivity suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office at just a fraction of the cost." -Star Office Software
• Link: http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/index.jsp

3. OpenOffice

• Description: "OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose." -Open Office
• Link: http://www.openoffice.org/

4. iWork

• Description: "iWork '09 is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way. And it's compatible with Microsoft Office." -Apple
• Link: http://www.apple.com/iwork/

5. IBM Lotus Symphony

• Description: "Office productivity software that is intuitive, easy to use and provided at no charge." -Lotus Symphony
• Link: http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home