Office and its rivals
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- Desktop Evolution, October 2002
Microsoft's Office suite dominates desktop computing. There are alternatives, but how do they measure up in terms of features and functionality?
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Microsoft rival Apple has its own equivalent to Microsoft's Works package - AppleWorks - which runs on both Windows and Macs, although as David Millar, Apple's corporate affairs manager admits, it is mainly for small businesses and education and the Windows version is “getting pretty old”.
Linux has many free open source offerings, including Gnome Office for its Gnome desktop environment and KOffice for its KDE environment, all in varying states of completion.
Microsoft's Office, however, remains the most complete - and the most expensive. For most of the others, price and cost of ownership is the battleground. Enterprises that are buying thousands of licences can potentially save millions of pounds by making the right choice.
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