Office alternatives

Fairly recently I had to reinstall windows, which forced me to reinstall my apps. Now, when I get around to MS Office, it says I've used up the activation limit for my copy (which is legal, ffs). I've had it up to here with this activation s**t, so can all you in the know please suggest either alternatives or some sort of workaround for MS.

Any alternative has to have word processing, spreadsheet and support for MS office files. I've heard of Open Office, is there a winxp version of it?

http://www.OpenOffice.org

It seems to support most ms-office formats, and yes it has a windows version.

I don't know how it behaves on windows, but it's slow as hell on any
linux machine I've seen so far. That's something you need to consider.

i got out voted last time. stay away from easy office.

i still use it and find it perfectly satisfactory. much preferable to MS office, which i have a legal copy of as well... to each their own as they say :/

Thanks guys.

I use OpenOffice, but no one else does
Not that it's THAT big of a deal, but it's annoying when you have to say ... send a resum? twice because they demand you use word without specifying it before hand. (bastards)

There are some other useful programs. Such as, if you need to write some documents regarding math, physics, logic, whatever, anything like that you should look for a TeX program. There's much newer GUI versions like MikeTex. Plus, All Tex versions have much higher detailed fonts, thus print outs are clearer.

I believe there's Windows builds floating around.

Just extra information, if you ever wondered. It is in no way a replacement for an office suite (unless you just use "text documents" then it very well can replace word or openoffice text)

You could ahemgetaserialoracrack for MS Office :rolleyes:

OpenOffice is pretty nice.

I wouldve done that Otz, but I dont like going around warez sites generally (windows firewall probably cant protect me well enough) and I never liked the MSO interface to begin with.

I use Open Office, and I love it. You need to keep in mind tho,
it's uses Java. Open Office reads and saves in all microsoft
formats. It's free and it's very nice. Can't go wrong with
it.

I use open office too after checking it out in the last thread of
office programs and I really like it. Though I've only used the
word processing. Seems like it takes quite a while to load and
save though.