Another Roundup of Free Open Source Software for Windows
Marketing challenged though they may be, the Open Source groups make great software. Another good roundup of Free Open Source Software came from Linuxworld last month. Sorry to take so long to get the news to you, but here it is.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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"...(except for saving documents in formats no one else can read)" - wrong, or at least misleading. It is your choice - you can set OpenOffice to save files accordng to Microsoft Office standards, or you can OpenOffice default file saving set: then the files on your disk get much smaller.You continue tosay "Better file zip with more controls than you expect? Got one." Files saved with the OpenOffice default settings are mostly in the size range of zipped MS files.
Some more free software for Windows.
I tend to favour SSuite Office’s free office suites. Their software also don’t need to run on Java or .NET, like so many open source office suites, so it makes their software very small and efficient.http://www.ssuitesoft.com