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[Friend]

Have you ever considered SSuite Office as a free alternative to MS Office?

Their software also doesn't need to run on Java or .NET, like MS Office and so many open source office suites, so it makes their software very small, efficient, and easy to use.

http://www.ssuitesoft.com/index.htm

[Brad R]

OK, I'm intrigued. Who are these guys (SSuite) and how long have they been around?
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[AllanLampkins]

What about the files extensions of this office? are they the same? if not, does it support the standard microsoft extensions ?

[Brad R]

It looks like they only support RTF and XLS:
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/richtextformat.htm

If you need to handle MS file formats, you might be better off with LibreOffice (formerly known as OpenOffice). It can read and write .DOC and .XLS files, and can read -- but not write -- .DOCX and .XLSX files. http://www.libreoffice.org/
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[BeBob Esq]

I think the reason they use RTF is because they don't believe in vendor lockin, at least that is what I get from their website.

When using RTF, everybody may be able to open and read your documents, no matter what software or operating system they use, now try that with doc, docx, or even odt/odf.

Not much fun using such limited document formats.

LibreOffice still needs Java to run on, that makes a 650MB install on your hard drive.