http://microsoft.toddverbeek.com/wp.html
It is a list of 18 alternatives to MS Word, most of them are fairly up to date with modern data interchange protocol support. The word processor selections are rated as follows:
- Close match or substitute for Microsoft's project
- Especially high quality alternative
- Inexpensive or free alternative
- Strong challenge to Microsoft's influence
- Personal selection
Software is listed that runs on Windows, MacOS, Unix-like systems, Java-compatible systems, Symbian OS, PalmOS, Netware, OpenVMS, BeOS, OS/S, Amiga, RISC OS and DOS.
I am using Unity 3D as a game development engine. I guess that makes me a game developer. Woo Hoo!!! Anyway, the Unity development editor is Mac only for the time being. As part of our burgeoning game development efforts at work, we got a new iMac as a production PC. ("iMac as a production PC?" That's what I said. Granted, this is not your grandmother's iMac.) In addition to the slew of starter software that Apple provides, this iMac comes with "Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive". Between the big watermark that it prints on every page, and the fact that I cannot print from the demo, (it says, "Printing is not available in the Microsoft Office 2004 Test Drive, but printing is available in the purchased version of Office 2004. To order your copy of Office 2004, click Buy Now"), I am afraid that this test drive is over. (Printing is available in Google docs, OpenOffice and Word Viewer, so why should I bother?)
So, as an alternative to making a purchase of software from the corporation Microsoft, today's task is the download, installation and evaluation of AbiWord by Dom Lachowicz.
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