need a free replacement for Microsoft Office, try this office suite for free, it has 98% of the features of Ms office and its for free.

It also supports Opendocuments, byebye MS word proprietary .doc formats etc etc, now people, business, organizations, and government can exchange data, files, documents without worrying if the other party can open the said files, if you dont have opendocument capable office suite, you can just download Openoffice 2.0 (79 mb).


Microsoft abhors the idea of Open formats and standards, People and governments are locked into using their Ms office suite because you can only reliably open .doc .ppt. .xls with MS word.

And Microsoft doesnt plan to support Opendocuments to lock users in using their Office suite. And they are against any adoption of Open standards like Opendocuments.

Its all about money, if people, government, and business starts adopting and using Opendocuments capable Suites (Openoffice, Koffice, etc etc) they would see it pointless to buy Ms office since files and be opened, edited and saved using any of the said suite. Unless your a Power User that needs 100% of the Ms office features, Openoffice, or open documents standard will be enough for 99% of Office suite user.

Lets do our share in fighting monopolistic lock ins, and let start spreading the news about Opendocuments and Open standards.