1. OFFICE SUITES

2. Office Suite Sometimes called an office software suite or a productivity suite Intended for use by a typical clerical worker and knowledge workers Components are generally distributed together, have a consistent interface and usually can interact with each other.

3. MS Office The dominant office suite and is available on Microsoft Windows and Apple’s Mac OS X Has become a proprietary de facto standard in office software

4. Alternatives to MS Office  Open source software available for Windows, Linux, Mac, and other platforms.  Has spawned several derivatives such as Mac’s NeoOffice  Supports many of the features of MS Office.  Can open MS Office files  Can save files in MS Office format

5. Alternatives to MS Office Released by Apple Consists of: Presentation program (keynote) Spreadsheet program (numbers) Document/layout program (pages)

6. Alternatives to MS Office The most popular online office suite, it allows editing of centrally stored documents using a web browser

7. Comparison Chart Operating System.doc.xls.ppt.docx.xlsx.pptx.odt.ods.odp MS OfficeWindows Mac With plugins OpenOfficeCross-platform With plugins iWorkMac OS X Google Docs Cross-platform

8. Comparison Chart DocumentsSpreadsheetsPresentations MS OfficeMS WordMS ExcelMS Powerpoint OpenOfficeWriterCalcImpress iWorkPagesNumbersKeynote Googledocs