Microsoft Killer Applications
There are a lot of free products available, those killing Microsoft Office Applications including Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Access and Microsoft Office Outlook.Microsoft office products are full of features and ask a lot of money from you but you can get all these office application functionality without paying anything to Software giant and you also get the platform interoperability. By using these applications you can easily create, share and publish your documents because now your documents don’t depend on the operating system limitations. These three products make full use of operating system capabilities.
Abiword : Abiword is free open source Word processing software similar to Microsoft office word. Abiword work fine on different operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux, QNX, free BSD and Solaris. Abiword can read all industry standard word formats including Microsoft office, open office, word perfect and rich text documents.The main AbiWord program is very small and requires very little resources to run. This allows AbiWord to be used on systems that are not considered “State of the Art” anymore, which comes all too quickly in the IT world.
Pegasus Mail : We all know about the Microsoft office outlook, IBM’s Lotus notes and many other email clients and also all these ask a lot of money from your pocket. Microsoft also announce that it will not support Outlook after the outlook 6 version. Thunderbird is good free email client but it is not the best email client.At first glance Pegasus Mail looks like the Microsoft outlook or Microsoft Outlook express.Pegasus Mail has? encryption, mail merge, multiple address books, annotations, notepads, the ability to circulate messages one person at a time for orderly sign-offs, and (bless it) error messages that offer enough information to help you actually figure out what’s wrong.
Kexi : Kexi id free open source database system work like Microsoft Office Access but only difference is that it won’t ask you more any money.Kexi can be used for creating database schemas, inserting data, performing queries, and processing data. Forms can be created to provide a custom interface to your data. All database objects - tables, queries and forms - are stored in the relational database, making it easy to share data and design.Kexi works on Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD,Mac OS X (using Fink) and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
