Here is the List.
For individuals and companies with limited needs for functionality, it may be appropriate to use Web-based alternatives to include Microsoft Word and Excel. Although many need advanced features such as the Web-based applications do not currently offer, this remains the case that the majority are just browsing a fraction of what is offered in todays software for spreadsheet or word processing. This is necessarily also OpenOffice.org, the most appropriate alternative to Microsoft Office for the time.
One advantage of Web-based software is that access is not restricted to a single PC, but that the user can use software from other computers from any location with web access. The disadvantage is that it depends on access to the Internet. At least in most cases. Many offer collaboration solutions and the ability to provide limited access to such corporate customers.
Since the last time we took this round, several of the players closed the door, or been acquired. This applies among other things, Jotspot, which has been bought by Google, while the time of writing Rally Point and iRows is unavailable online.
Here are an updated list of the best free programs:
Here are independent competitors to Word, Excel and PowerPoint:
WriteBoard offers the only text editor, but the program is not a simplified Word copy. Write Board is suitable to produce documents when many will contribute, for you to keep track of all changes, roll back and compare versions to see exactly what has changed.
NumSum is an Excel option such as offers a variety of ready-made worksheets that can be used as templates and ready-made planners for including weddings or expense reports.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets is partly based on the earlier product Writely, which has been acquired by Google. This has been merged with a spreadsheet solution. You can upload and download files in several formats, including Word, Excel, Acrobat PDF, the simple text format, RTF and OpenOffice formats ODT and ODS.
Empressrer is a program that lets you create presentations with both audio, animated traffic, graphs, images, video and Flash elements.
Here are four useful utilities:
Time trackers a simple tool for consultants to keep track of the time-charts and billing. Practical to extract and add to this list wherever you are. '> Time Tracker is an easy tool for consultants to keep track of the time-charts and billing. Practical to extract and add to this list wherever you are.
Real Time HTML Editor is a two-part online tools that allow you to write HTML code on one half of the screen and see the results continuously provide the code in the second part. & Real Time HTML Editor is a two-part online tools that allow you to write HTML code on the one half of the screen and see the results continuously provide the code in the second part.
Calendar Hub is an advanced calendar that allows groups of users, whether a workgroup in a job situation or as a family share and see each others calendars. Kiko is another option.
Proto Page is a summary, a kind of desktop you can use to display a variety of types of information. Reminiscent of a widget collection.
Competitors to the Microsoft Office collection:
ThinkFree is a powerful and relatively complete alternative to Microsoft Office. The collection provides, like its competitors, both the ability to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations. But ThinkFree standsout by allowing you to save in both the Microsoft format and Adobe PDF. Microsoft formats makes ThinkFree can be used as a supplement and not a substitute for those who do not want to throw out Microsoft Office completely.
You can also upload documents and you get another interesting possibility: You can share the reading and / or editing rights to other ThinkFree users, such as your colleagues.
In addition, you get a free storage account for the documents you store on 1 GB. The company writes that they are in beta, but it can at the present time well mean that the service in practice is finished.
gOffice was early, and offers competitors to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. But gOffice has one thing the competitors do not have - this page provides a module for graphic design (desktop publishing). gOffice save all documents as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
Competitors to Microsoft Project
Base Camp is one of the perhaps most sophisticated free offers on the net. The website serves a very feature rich project management tool that allows you to manage projects with participation from many others. The program provides both graphs, lists, and prints. In addition, you can add tasks, alarms and get out time sheets.
Backpack is a very simple service that allows users to create Web pages with to-do lists, notes, files and pictures. It also offers a calendar and registration service that can send reminders via e-mail or the user at preset times. The pages can be grouped by using simple tags.
The most comprehensive collection is Adventnets Zoho. Many of the services offered at no charge. Others cost money, while some server software is intended to be run by the customers themselves. Also these are in some cases free.
AdventNets Zoho series consists primarily of free goods and Zoho Show, Zoho Planner, Zoho Chat, Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Soho Projects and Soho Creator. In addition, there Zoho CRM, which is free for up to three users, and Zoho Virtual Office, a server solution will be simple to install on a Windows or Linux server and is free for up to 10 users.
Zoho Show is a Web-based presentation tool, Zoho Planner is a tool for organizing user reminders, notes, tasks and other things. Zoho Chat is a Web-based messages system where the user can invite anyone to participate in scheduled chats.
Zoho Writer is a word-processing tools such as the support importing of Word and OpenOffice.org files. It is partly possible for multiple users to edit a document simultaneously. The documents can be exported to a variety of common formats.
Zoho Sheet is a spreadsheet program with over 300 functions. It can import and export files in Excel format. Here, too, can be multiple users in collaborative editing of documents.
Zoho Wiki is a free service for creating and managing a wiki. Includes a WYSIWYG interface and supports access control.
Zoho Projects is a team tool for organizing projects and the participants' work. It also lets users monitor the progress and status of the project.
Zoho Creator is a development tool that will make it easy for people without programming skills to create personal Web sites or commercial, Web-based solutions, often by copying and adapting existing solutions. But the user can also create a solution from scratch or get a custom solution to a data file, such as a spreadsheet, the user uploads.
Zohi CRM and Zoho Virtual Office is different from the others in that they cost money if the number of users exceeds a certain limit. In many cases, the limits can not be lower than that it is sufficient for a small business.
Zoho CRM is a customer relationship program that can also be installed on a server at the company. It includes a Helpdesk solution and an order management system.
Zoho Virtual Office is marketed as a complete groupware system. It is installed on a server in the enterprise and also offers a web-based email solution, virtual document storage, personal calendar and group calendar, task planning, management solution for contacts, an internal instant messaging, discussion forums and appointment calendar.
