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LibreOffice Writer is an example of a word processor.

In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a collection of programs intended to be used by knowledge workers. The components are generally distributed together, have a consistent user interface and usually can interact with each other, sometimes in ways that the operating system would not normally allow.

Typical office suite components

Multi-platform office suites

Freeware suites

  • IBM Lotus Symphony — based upon version 3.x of OpenOffice.org. Its components include Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations. For Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
  • SoftMaker Office 2006 (for MS Windows) and SoftMaker Office 2008 (for Linux and MS Windows). Newer editions are commercial software.

Open source suites

  • Calligra Suite — free and open-source office suite.
  • GNOME Office - Consists of AbiWord, Gnumeric and other software. Some of the applications are cross-platform, others are currently Linux only.
  • LibreOffice - independent fork of OpenOffice.org with a number of enhancements
  • OpenOffice.org — an open-source software project upon which Sun's StarOffice is based. The initial code was provided by Sun Microsystems, based on the Star Office package by German company, Star Division, which it had previously acquired. Sun has provided much of the labour for its development since. Its components include Writer, Impress, Math, Draw, Calc, and Base. Releases are available for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. As Sun was purchased by Oracle, OpenOffice.org is now under Oracle's ownership.[1]

Proprietary suites

  • Kingsoft Office (Chinese version known as WPS Office) — a native Chinese-language office suite. English and Japanese versions are currently available also. For Microsoft Windows and some versions are available also for Linux.
  • SoftMaker Office 2010 — a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation graphics program, provided by a German company. For Microsoft Windows, Linux , Windows Mobile, and Windows CE. Softmaker 2006 is a free download for Windows.
  • StarOffice — an office suite from Sun Microsystems. Originally developed by the German firm Star Division, which Sun acquired. Early versions shared code with OpenOffice.org project, which Sun funded, but there has been separate development of the two packages. For Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris.

Office suites for Microsoft Windows

Freeware suites

Open source suites

Proprietary suites

  • Ability Office
  • Breadbox Office — DOS software, but has been successfully tested with Win3.x, Win95/98/98SE/ME, WinNT4.0, Win2000 and the 32bit-versions of WinXP, WinVista and Win7.0.
  • Celframe Office — supports Microsoft Office and other popular file formats, with a user interface styled on Microsoft Office 2003.
  • EasyOffice
  • EIOffice[2] (Evermore Integrated Office) — a Chinese / English / Japanese / French language integrated office suite. Available for Windows / Linux operating systems
  • Framework — historical but also still supported for Windows by the present developer, Selection & Functions Inc.
  • Gobe Productive — Originally written for BeOS by developers of the original ClarisWorks, GoBe Productive is a lightweight integrated Works-like office suite with a generous "Hassle-Free License."
  • Ichitaro JUST Suite 2008 — a full Japanese-language suite from JustSystems, the most direct competitor to Microsoft Office in Japan. For Windows only.
  • Kingsoft Office (Chinese version known as WPS Office) — a native Chinese-language office suite. English and Japanese versions are currently available also.
  • IBM Lotus SmartSuite — For Windows 9x, NT, 2000 and XP only
  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Works
  • SoftMaker Office 2010
  • StarOffice
  • WordPerfect Office

Office suites for DOS

Proprietary suites

  • Breadbox Office — A word processor, spreadsheet, address book and drawing program. It is part of a broader software package called Breadbox Ensemble which also includes programs such as email, web-browser and html editor. Breadbox Ensemble runs under the GEOS (16-bit operating system) and effectively requires a version of DOS to be installed on the host system.

Office suites for Mac OS X

Freeware suites

Open source suites

  • Calligra Suite (previously known as KOffice) — free and open-source, native support since version 2.0
  • NeoOffice — NeoOffice is a Mac-specific free/open-source software development project dedicated to integrating OpenOffice.org with native features of Mac OS X as well as other enhancements that give the suite a more "Mac-like" look and feel.
  • OpenOffice.org runs on Mac natively in an Aqua version.
  • LibreOffice runs on Mac natively in an Aqua version.

Proprietary suites

Office suites for Unix/Unix-like operating systems

Free software suites

Proprietary suites

  • IBM Lotus Symphony — freeware word, spreadsheet and presentation suite.
  • SoftMaker Office 2008 — freeware word, spreadsheet and presentation suite. SoftMaker Office 2010 is a commercial version.

Mobile office suites

Office suites for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, and others.

Proprietary suites

Online office suites

Main article: Online office suite

Freeware suites

  • Google Docs — an AJAX-based online office suite from Google, Inc. The suite includes a word processor, a spreadsheet program, and a presentation editor. Available free and as an enterprise service.
  • Windows Live Office - an online office suite from Microsoft which is based on Windows Live SkyDrive. It includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation application and a notetaking program. Allow users to create, edit, save and share documents.
  • Zoho Office Suite — a free online office suite from AdventNet, Inc. Includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and collaboration groupware.

Open source suites

  • Feng Office (formerly OpenGoo) — an open source, fully featured online office suite. The application can be downloaded and installed on a server.
  • Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured web application, which includes a spreadsheet, webmail, etc.

Proprietary suites

  • ContactOffice
  • ShareOffice — a Web-based office suite from ShareMethods. This suite utilizes separate word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications from other vendors. It is distributed through Salesforce.com's AppExchange program.
  • Simdesk — an online office suite from Simdesk Technologies, Inc. This suite offers partial compatibility with the Microsoft Office file formats (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint). With a monthly subscription to Simdesk Services (costing $3.50 – $20 per month), one is allowed to install the application anywhere.
  • ThinkFree Office — an office suite written in Java, from ThinkFree, Inc. It includes a word processor (Write), a spreadsheet (Calc), and a presentation program (Show). For Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Comparison of general and technical information

See also: Comparison of word processors, Comparison of spreadsheet software.

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. The table only includes systems that are widely used and currently available.

General information

Developer First public release Predecessor Latest Stable version Operating system Costs in USD License Microsoft Office (.doc, .xls) support Microsoft Office Open XML support OpenDocument support Portable Document Format support
Ability Office Ability Plus Software 1995 — 5.00 Windows 49.99 - 59.99 Proprietary Yes Yes Planned for Ability Office 6 Export only
Celframe Office Celframe 2006 (Windows) — Celframe Office 2008 Windows 68.20 - 190.96 Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Export only
Feng Office Community Edition Feng Office 2007 - 1.6.1 Fully online Free AGPL No No No No
GNOME Office GNOME Foundation, AbiSource — AbiWord, Gnumeric 2.4.5/1.10.2/1.9 & 0.62 Cross-platform Free GPL Yes Yes Yes Export only[3]
GobeProductive Gobe Software 1998 — 3.04 / 2.01 Windows and BeOS 49.95 Proprietary Yes No No No
Google Apps, Google Docs Google 2006 Writely 2010 Fully online Free Proprietary Yes Yes [4] Yes Export only
Breadbox Office Breadbox Computer Company 1990 — 4.1.3.0 DOS, Windows 99.95 Proprietary No No No No
IBM Lotus Symphony IBM 2007 IBM Workplace 3 Windows, Linux and Mac OS X Free Proprietary Yes Import only [5] Yes Export only
iWork Apple Inc. 2005 AppleWorks[6] '09 Mac OS X 79.00 Proprietary Yes Import only No Export only
Kingsoft Office (WPS Office) Kingsoft 1988 WPS (word processor) 2009 Windows and Linux 69.95 Proprietary Yes Import only support for .docx and .xlsx No[7] Export only
Calligra Suite KDE Project 1998 — 2010-12-31 (2.3) BSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows Free LGPL and GPL Yes import Yes Export only[3]
LibreOffice The Document Foundation 2010 September OpenOffice.org 3.4 Cross-platform Free LGPL Yes Yes Yes Import with free plugin
Lotus SmartSuite IBM 1992[8] — 9.8 Windows and OS/2 313.00 Proprietary Yes No No No
MarinerPak Mariner Software 1996 — 10.0 Mac OS and Mac OS X 79.95 Proprietary Import only No No No
Microsoft Office Microsoft 1990 (Macintosh), 1992 (Windows) Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel PowerPoint 2010 (14.0) (Windows), 2011 (14.0.1) (Macintosh) Windows and Macintosh 89.95- 679.95 Proprietary Yes Office 2007 supports ECMA-376 1st edition.[9] Poor support starting with Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 but greatly improved in Microsoft Office 2010, no support in Office 2011 for Mac however Export only[10]
Microsoft Works Microsoft 1986 — (9.0) (Windows), (4.0) (Macintosh) Windows and Macintosh 39.95 Proprietary Yes Yes No No
NeoOffice Planamesa Software 2005-06-02 OpenOffice.org 1.1 for Mac OS X 3.1.1 Mac OS X $10 GPL Yes Yes Yes Import with free plugin
OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org Organization 2001 October StarOffice 3.3 Cross-platform Free LGPL Yes With free plugins Yes Import with free plugin
ShareOffice ShareMethods 2007 May — — Fully online > 10,000.00 / year Proprietary Yes No Yes No
SoftMaker Office SoftMaker 1989 — 2010, 2008 (Windows, Linux, Windows Mobile, Windows CE),
2006 (Handheld PC) 		Windows, Linux, Pocket PC (Windows Mobile, Windows CE) 79.95 (34.95 Acad.) or Free (versions 2006 and 2008) Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Export only
StarOffice Sun Microsystems 1995 StarWriter 9.0 Cross-platform 34.95 Proprietary Yes With free plugins Yes Import with free plugin
ThinkFree Office Haansoft 1998 — 3.5 Cross-platform 49.95 Proprietary Yes Import only No[11][12] No
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Tiki Software Community Association 2002 — 6.2 Fully online Free LGPL No No No No
WordPerfect Office Corel 1991 WordPerfect (1982) X5 Windows 69.99 - 399.99 Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Export only
ZCubes ZCubes Inc. 2006 — 2007 Fully online Free Proprietary No No No No
Zoho Office Suite AdventNet 2005 — Fully online 0 - 25 / User / Month Proprietary Yes Yes Yes No
Developer First public release Predecessor Stable version Operating system Costs in USD License Microsoft Office (.doc, .xls...) support Microsoft Office Open XML support OpenDocument Support Portable Document Format support

Operating system support

The operating systems the office suites were designed to run on without emulation; for the given office suite/OS combination, there are five possibilities:

  • No indicates that it does not exist or was never released.
  • Partial indicates that while the office suite works, it lacks important functionality compared to versions for other OSs; it is still being developed however.
  • Beta indicates that while a version of the office suite is fully functional and has been released, it is still in development (e.g. for stability).
  • Yes indicates that the office suite has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
  • Dropped indicates that while the office suite works, new versions are no longer being released for the indicated OS; the number in parentheses is the last known stable version which was officially released for that OS.

Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common operating systems today.

Office suite Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix
Ability Office Yes No No No No
Celframe Office Yes with plugins Some (with Wine) No No
Feng Office Community Edition Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online
GNOME Office yes [13] yes [14] Yes Yes Yes
Gobe Productive Yes No No No No
Google Apps Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online
Breadbox Office DOS, Windows No No No No
IBM Lotus Symphony Yes Yes Yes ? ?
iWork No Yes No No No
Kingsoft Office (WPS Office) Yes No some versions[15] No No
Calligra Suite Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
LibreOffice Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Lotus SmartSuite Yes No No No No
MarinerPak No Yes No No No
Microsoft Office Yes Yes (no support for VBA in Excel) Some (with Wine) No No
Microsoft Works Yes Dropped (4.0; Classic only) No No No
NeoOffice No Mac OS X v10.3 or above No No No
OpenOffice.org Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ShareOffice Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online
SoftMaker Office Yes No Yes Dropped (2006) No
StarOffice Yes Yes (Intel only) Yes Yes Yes
ThinkFree Office Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online
WordPerfect Office Yes No Some (Ver. 2000) No No
ZCubes Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online
Zoho Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online Fully online
Office suite Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix

Main components

Offline capabilities

Word processor Spreadsheet Presentation program Notetaking software Diagramming software Raster graphics editor Vector graphics editor Image viewer Formula editor Database management system Project management software Desktop publishing software
Ability Office Ability Write Ability Spreadsheet Ability Presentation No Ability Draw Ability Photopaint Ability Draw Ability Photoalbum No Ability Database No No
Celframe Office Celframe Write Celframe Spreadsheet Celframe Power Presentation Celframe Note Taker Celframe Draw Celframe Draw Celframe Studio Celframe Photo Album Celframe Spreadsheet Inbuilt Celframe DataAccess Celframe Project Celframe Publisher
Feng Office Community Edition Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes No No Yes No
GNOME Office Abiword Gnumeric Ease Tomboy Dia[3] GIMP Inkscape[3] F-Spot[3] built into Abiword GNOME-DB Planner[3] No
GobeProductive Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Google Apps Google Docs Google Docs Google Docs Google Notebook Google Docs Google Drawing Google Drawing Picasa, Picasaweb TeX compatible No No No
Breadbox Office Writer Spreadsheet No No No Artist Artist No No Geofile No No
IBM Lotus Symphony Documents Spreadsheets Presentations No No No No No No No No No
iWork Pages Numbers Keynote No No No No No No No No Pages
Kingsoft Office (WPS Office) Kingsoft Writer Kingsoft Spreadsheets Kingsoft Presentation No No No No No Equation Editor No No No
Calligra Suite KWord KSpread KPresenter BasKet[3] Kivio Krita Karbon14 Gwenview/Digikam[3] KFormula Kexi KPlato KWord
LibreOffice LibreOffice Writer LibreOffice Calc LibreOffice Impress No LibreOffice Draw No LibreOffice Draw No LibreOffice Math LibreOffice Base No LibreOffice Draw
Lotus SmartSuite Lotus Word Pro Lotus 1-2-3 Lotus Freelance Graphics No Lotus Freelance Graphics No No No built in Lotus Approach Lotus Organizer No
MarinerPak Mariner Write Mariner Calc No No No No No No No No No No
Microsoft Office Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft OneNote Microsoft Visio No No Microsoft Office Picture Manager Equation Editor Microsoft Access Microsoft Project Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Works Microsoft Works Word Processor Microsoft Works Spreadsheet Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer No No No No No No Microsoft Works Database No No
NeoOffice NeoOffice Writer NeoOffice Calc NeoOffice Impress No NeoOffice Draw No NeoOffice Draw No NeoOffice Math NeoOffice Base No NeoOffice Draw
OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Calc OpenOffice.org Impress No OpenOffice.org Draw No OpenOffice.org Draw No OpenOffice.org Math OpenOffice.org Base No OpenOffice.org Draw
ShareOffice iNetOffice EditGrid Preezo No No No No No No No No No
SoftMaker Office Textmaker PlanMaker Presentations No No No No No Yes DataMaker No Yes
StarOffice StarWriter StarCalc StarImpress No StarDraw No StarDraw No StarMath StarBase No StarDraw
ThinkFree Office Write Calc show No No No No No No No No No
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Tiki Wiki Tiki Spreadhseet Tiki Slideshow Tiki Notepad No No No Tiki File Gallery No Tiki Trackers Tiki Trackers, Tiki Wiki and Tiki Task No
WordPerfect Office WordPerfect Quattro Pro Corel Presentations WordPerfect Lightning Corel Presentations Corel Paint Shop Pro Corel Draw No Equation Editor Paradox Yes Yes
ZCubes ZText Editor Calci ZSlide ZHandwrite ZCharts ZPaint ZPaint ZAlbum Calci ZPlatform No No
Zoho Office Suite Zoho Writer Zoho Sheet Zoho Show Zoho Notebook No No No No No Zoho Reports Zoho Projects No
Word processor Spreadsheet Presentation program Notetaking software Diagramming software Raster graphics editor Vector graphics editor Image viewer Formula editor Database management system Project management software Desktop publishing software

Online capabilities

E-mail client HTML editor Collaborative software Online editing
Ability Office No No No No
Celframe Office Celframe Mail Celframe Publishing, Celframe Write Inbuilt Google Docs, plugin in all apps Celframe Office Online - 2011
Feng Office Community Edition beta No Yes Yes
GNOME Office Evolution[3] No Abiword No
GobeProductive No Yes No No
Google Apps Gmail Google Sites Yes fully online
Breadbox Office Yes Yes No No
IBM Lotus Symphony No No No No
iWork No No iWork.com in beta iWork.com
Kingsoft Office (WPS Office) No No No Yes
Calligra Suite Kontact[3] Quanta+[3] No No
LibreOffice No LibreOffice Writer No With free plugins
Lotus SmartSuite No Lotus FastSite Yes No
MarinerPak No No No No
Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Entourage Microsoft SharePoint Designer Microsoft Groove Microsoft Office Live
Microsoft Works No No No Microsoft Office Live
NeoOffice No NeoOffice Writer[16] No No
OpenOffice.org No OpenOffice.org Writer[16] No With free plugins
ShareOffice No No Yes Fully online
SoftMaker Office No No No No
StarOffice No StarWriter[16] No With free plugins
ThinkFree Office No Note No ThinkFree.com
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Tiki Webmail WYSIWYG editor Yes Fully online
WordPerfect Office WordPerfect MAIL No No Yes
ZCubes No Yes Yes Yes
Zoho Office Suite Zoho Mail Zoho Writer Yes Yes
E-mail client HTML editor Collaborative software Online editing

Unicode support

Not all office suites support Unicode; some have restricted Unicode support or, like Corel WordPerfect Office, use their own encoding standard.

Historical

  • AppleWorks (previously known as "ClarisWorks") — an early Mac Office suite. It has morphed and branched into AppleWorks and GoBe Productive. When the original developers split up, ClarisWorks continued as AppleWorks after being bought by Apple, and GoBeProductive was redeveloped from the ground up using ideas from the original. Apple discontinued this suite after the release of iWork '08 in August 2007.[17]
  • IBM Works — was an office suite for the IBM OS/2 operating system. It included word processing, spreadsheet, database and PIM applications.
  • Island Office was available in the 1990s on many Unix platforms. This included Island Write, Draw, Paint, Presents, Calc, Chart, Table and Equation. Island Draw was, at the time, an extremely powerful PostScript editor. The company that created this software was/is called Island Software.
  • Lotus Symphony — Following the popularity of office suites made by competitors, the makers of the wildly popular Lotus 123, tried their hand at a suite for DOS. (Name resurrected by IBM in September 2007 as IBM Lotus Symphony)
  • Lotus Jazz — Mac sister product to Lotus Symphony.
  • LotusWorks — DOS and Windows suite containing a word processor, spreadsheet, database, graphing tools and telecommunications (modem terminal) module.
  • Open Access — Integrated software by Software Products International (SPI).
  • Q&A (software) — Featured a flat file database whose "intelligent assistant" could answer natural language questions, and integrated word processor.
  • WindowWorks — Successor to LotusWorks above.
  • Xoom Office — Historical but still available on eBay and elsewhere. Produced by the former makers of WordStar.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Oracle Buys Sun" -- Oracle Press Release: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363
  2. ^ MacTech Editorial Staff. "Office 2004 Benchmarks on Intel-based Macs". MacTech. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Not included in this office suite, but provided in the Desktop Environment.
  4. ^ http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/06/02/finally-google-docs-can-open-docx-and-xlsx-files
  5. ^ "What's new in Lotus Symphony 3". IBM. 21 October 2010.
  6. ^ "Apple Unveils iWork '05". Apple Inc. 11 January 2005. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
  7. ^ Kingsoft Office 2009 has no ODF support
  8. ^ Release date of Lotus SmartSuite from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3563/is_n7_v9/ai_14346979[dead link]
  9. ^ No OOXML in Office 2007 service pack
  10. ^ Native Export starting with Microsoft Office 2007 SP2; free Microsoft plugins are available for older versions [1]
  11. ^ ThinkFree on Ubuntu
  12. ^ ThinkFree features
  13. ^ Only Abiword, Gnumeric, GIMP and Inkscape are available for MS Windows.
  14. ^ Only Abiword is available as a native application. Using X11, one can run GIMP and Inkscape. With X11 and DarwinPorts, one can also run Gnumeric.
  15. ^ Kingsoft Office 2009 - supported operating systems
  16. ^ a b c When in WYSIWYG HTML editing mode.
  17. ^ Evans, Jonny (15 August 2007). "Apple cans AppleWorks". Macworld UK. Retrieved 15 August 2007.

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