{"id":2089,"date":"2009-12-25T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T23:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2009-12-25T00:05:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T23:05:26","slug":"a-free-office-suite-for-christmas-and-i-dont-mean-open-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"A free office suite for Christmas (and I don’t mean Open Office)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open Office is good but it’s not great and several months ago a few people came to the conclusion that a relatively little known product called Softmaker Office was quite a bit better<\/a>.\u00a0 This may upset some of you because Softmaker isn’t free software;\u00a0 it’s proprietary – but it is cheap!\u00a0 In particular, educational site licenses<\/a> are ridiculously cheap.\u00a0 For $99 dollars you can buy a site license that will allow you to install it on any Windows machine in your school or university.\u00a0 For another $99 you can have it on every Linux machine!\u00a0 Unfortunately, there is no love for Mac users at the moment though.<\/p>\n

So it’s cheap but is it any good?\u00a0 Well, why not find out?\u00a0 Between now and 31st December 2009, Softmaker are offering their entire office suite (word processor, spreadsheet and presentation) for free on both the Windows and Linux platforms<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ve downloaded it and will be having a play with it over the festive period and I invite you to as well.\u00a0 I’d be very intersted to hear your thoughts on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Open Office is good but it’s not great and several months ago a few people came to the conclusion that a relatively little known product called Softmaker Office was quite a bit better.\u00a0 This may upset some of you because Softmaker isn’t free software;\u00a0 it’s proprietary – but it is cheap!\u00a0 In particular, educational site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-xH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}