Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office comes in a few different versions satisfying your needs if you are a home user only needing Word and Excel or if you are a business needing the complete Microsoft Office collection with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Publisher, InfoPath and Outlook.

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a free office suite that is compatable with other office suites, such as Microsoft Office. It justifies the cost of having a powerful office suite at home without losing features. OpenOffice.org provides you with an excellent collection of applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, and a drawing application that creates everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations and special effects. You can even open Microsoft Office files such as Word, Excel, and Powerpoint and even save files such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Most OpenOffice.org applications look and act quite similar to Microsoft Office applications so if you are used to them at all, it shouldn't take you long to start using the most powerful, low cost office suite available.