Best Free and Free Alternatives to MS Office for 2020

It is no secret to anyone that within everything «Sistema Operativo», the most used by everything common user It is usually the «Navegador web» and «Aplicaciones Ofimáticas», such as a Text editor, an PDF file reader or the well known «Suite Ofimáticas», which are nothing more than a set (package) of applications that allow the management (creation, reading, modification) of files and documents of daily work in offices or homes.

Therefore, although most usually use «MS Windows» and its corresponding «Suite Ofimática»Called «MS Office», the truth is that both, about this «Sistema Operativo» as about the «Distros GNU/Linux» and others, there are usually excellent free and open alternatives, or at least Returns, which can be used by everyone to perform office work with quality and efficiency.

And either, that your new Computer bring «Windows 10» with a trial version of Microsoft Office installed, which you can later buy or continue using with a pirate solution, or bring «Mac OS» with the «Suite Ofimática» iWork, the ideal will always be to choose to use a Free and open office suite or free, and preferably multi platform.

Therefore, below a small review for each of the best known and valued alternatives of «Suite Ofimáticas» to consider during this year 2020 as a replacement for «MS Office».

Free and free alternatives to MS Office for 2020

Free and Open

LibreOffice

LibreOffice, the oldest, known and used «Suite Ofimática» of the GNU / Linux world currently goes for this date, by the number of self 6.4.0 1 beta for your testing branch, the number of version 6.3.3 for its stable development branch, and the number of version 6.2.8 for your stable branch. And with versions for «Windows, Mac OS y Linux» in different formats of installation files. And iIncludes for now, the following packages: Write, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base and Math.

“ LibreOffice is a powerful office suite; its clean interface and powerful tools allow you to unleash your creativity and boost your productivity. LibreOffice includes several applications that make it the most powerful Free and Open Source office suite on the market: Writer, the word processor; Calc, the spreadsheet; Impress, the presentation editor; Draw, our drawing and flowchart application; Base, our database and interface with other databases; and Math for editing mathematical formulas . ”

In summary, «Libre Office» is one of the most solid projects of the GNU / Linux world, with an excellent, modern and friendly user interface, and with a sustained and rapid growth within the Free and Open Source Software Ecosystem.

Calligra

CalligraSuite from its official page is a «Suite Ofimática» distributed through compressed files (tar.xz) that contain its source code, however, it can be easily installed from the repositories of many of the most popular «Distros GNU/Linux».

Currently, it goes by the number of version 3.1.0 for your stable branch and version number 3.2.0 alpha for your development branch. However, in it you can get its installation files to «MS Windows» en .msi format for versions of 32 and 64 bits, and although it does not have installation files for «Mac OS» This can be installed on top of it, using the Package Manager known as Homebrew.

This «Suite Ofimática» part of the KDE Community, which in turn, is dedicated to the production of Free Software. And it offers a complete set of 8 applications that meet the office management needs of an average office, which are for now: Words, Stage, Sheet, Flow, Kexi, and is usually complemented with others from the KDE Project, such as Karbon and KritaPlus Quốc Gia.

Free

• WPS Office
• Free Office (Softmaker)
• Office Only
• open Office
• Office Free (Ashampoo)
• Office Suite

Of these, some of the most valued both by the «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» are WPS y Free office, so much so that they currently come by default, in at least 1 Linux Distro. If you want to know more about these 2 «Suite Ofimáticas», we recommend you read our previous articles about them: WPS y Free office.

And if you only want an online office suite as an alternative , then the following options are available:

• Google Docs
• MS OneDrive (MS Office Online)
• IBM Docs
• Zoho Docs
• Dropbox Papers
• Polaris Office
• Open 365

Among many others.

Conclusion

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