25 Products We Can't Live Without
Here's the stuff you'd have to pry from the hands of the PC World staff.
PC World Staff
OpenOffice 2.3
It's hard not to love an office suite that does everything I need and costs me exactly $0. It's not merely that I'm a tightwad (I am) or that I hate Microsoft (I do). The OpenOffice.org suite simply works. It handles Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with ease and seamless integration: When I'm in Writer, I can open a spreadsheet or presentation file with a couple of clicks--without sucking up half my system memory or crashing my PC. OpenOffice is not perfect, of course. To send files to non-OpenOffice users, I must convert the documents to something more Microsoft-friendly. The suite has few bells and whistles, too. But if I wanted bells and whistles, I'd get myself a choo-choo train.
--Dan Tynan, Gadget Freak columnist
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