Office is now offering a 3 month subscription for Office 365. Guess no one thought that everyone will be out of school in less than 3 months, a surprising time to make this offer considering that. If you share on Facebook you can get 6 months which should expire right after you get back to school. Anyone else can still try it for free for a month.

While Office is now cheaper at $99.00, it is now a yearly subscription which only makes me laugh more. If the subscription model holds up, I will be using a different suite soon, especially since all I really need is Word to write articles like this because otherwise this would be a real mess, and sometimes it is anyway.

Whoever said a high school education was a waste of time?

Anyway, we recently gave you a list of free suites and we just don’t see the point in buying the expensive Office suite or yearly subscription. The following is that list again and they are all excellent and completely compatible :


Full Office Suites:

LibreOffice Productivity Suite 4.0.1
LibreOffice was developed to be a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute.

SSuite Office - Premium HD 2.4
The world's first free HD optimized office software. This office suite runs on the Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 / 8 platforms only.

Apache OpenOffice.org For Windows 3.41
OpenOffice.org is a free, Open Source alternative to MS Office with a Word compatible word processor, a complete Excel compatible spread sheet program and a Power Point like presentation software and drawing program and also allows to save to PDF file.

Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012 8.1.0.3375
Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012 is an free office suite that offers a number of features for creating, viewing and editing personal and business documents. Our Office Suite 2012 includes Writer, Presentation and spreadsheets.

OxygenOffice Professional 3.2.1
OxygenOffice Professional (formely know as OpenOffice.org Premium) is a free and open source enhancement of official OpenOffice.org plus some Extras for you to use. The Hungarian Native Language Team has modified the source of OpenOffice.org and bundled lot of extras with it.


Microsoft Word replacements:

SSuite Office - WordGraph 8.10
WordGraph is a free and very useful alternative to Microsoft Word, OpenOffice's Writer, or anything else out there claiming to be the latest and greatest. You don't even have a need for .NET or even JAVA to be installed.

AbiWord 2.9.4
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc.