
Graphics compatibility in page design are often their fail point. Many of the Linux word processing packages are little more than glorified text editors. Generally, Linux office suites lack a really solid slide presentation creation tool, however. The Linux OS has its share of free lightweight word processors and a few worthy standalone spreadsheet apps. Office suite compatibility is one of the major selling/rejecting points when consumers and enterprises consider migrating to the Linux OS. If you are thinking, “Gee, why not keep the Maker moniker consistent by calling it ‘SlideMaker’?” I totally agree. The FreeOffice 2018/SoftMaker Office 2018 products are Windows/Linux cross-platform applications with integrated modules for word processing (TextMaker), spreadsheets (PlanMaker) and presentations (Presentations). The Germany-based software developer offers an impressive and very usable line of open source and commercial products. The FreeOffice line is distributed under the Mozilla Public License. I recently reviewed the beta commercial version. Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business lets you fully test the new, long-awaited version of the world's most popular productivity suite.SoftMaker’s FreeOffice 2018 Linux office suite is a high-end product that provides performance and compatibility with Microsoft Office and other office suites.įreeOffice 2018, released this spring, is a free version that is nearly identical to the features and user interface of Softmaker’s commercial flagship office suite, SoftMaker Office 2018.

In all, Microsoft Office 2010 is an excellent productivity suite with great new features that make it easier and more comfortable to use, and also turn it into an even more professional solution for daily work tasks. Not only does it include direct access to all document-related tasks, but also shows detailed information about the document you're currently working on. They still keep the "ribbon" interface – in a much clearer, almost minimalist style – but the Office button has been renamed to "File" and now shows a different pane. A few changes to keep in mindĪs regards appearance, all the Microsoft Office 2010 apps have been slightly modified. There's a significant improvement in the time the suite apps take to launch, and how they behave when working on your documents. Regarding performance, Microsoft Office 2010 seems to be as fast and light on system resources as the Technical Preview. What's more, Microsoft Office 2010 now lets you save your documents on SkyDrive and share them online in just two clicks. There are also tools to translate text, take and use screenshots, and apply special effects to the images you use in your documents.

You can now add videos to your PowerPoint presentations, remove redundant messages from conversations in Outlook and insert small color charts inside cells in Excel spreadsheets.

The context menu in Word, for example, has been greatly improved and lets you see changes in real time as you browse through the different options. Leaving changes aside, the truth is that Microsoft Office 2010 has pretty much the same features we already saw in the Technical Preview.
