The Fifth Element

• Version: 2.1
• Downloads Count: 35,053
• License Type: Free
• Price: Free
• Date Added: May 29, 2009
• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
• File Size: 38.652 MB
• Author: Ssuite Office Software

Most recent User Reviews for The Fifth Element

• Reviewed by: UrBasicGuy

  06-18-2009

  Duration of ownership: 0 Days

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  Overall Evaluation: Yeah, like i'm gonna install anything on my computer that comes from South Afrika. Scam capital of the world. No telling what might be hidden in the programming.

• Reviewed by: kentol

  06-16-2009

  Duration of ownership: 1 Days

  Strengths: DO NOT INSTALL ON Microsoft Vista - or XP; possibly, any previous version. Does not work!

  Weaknesses: Once installed, its' big bold tool bar reminded me of third party products designed for IBM's OS/2 Warp (if only IBM woulda coulda shoulda - but after 30 years Microsoft has learned to make a true Operating System, not a DOS based GUI, that works somewhat reliably). First click on Ssuit's tool bar was MAIL and full screen freeze of Ssuite and Vista. Ctl-alt-del, "Ssuite preventing Restart / Shutdown" - Shutdown anyway! Same with next try, using Graph memo thing. No Uninstall even for me, the computer's administrator. Oh, the help files are designed and written for Windows 2000 and earlier versions. Weaknesses - See Strengths!

  Overall Evaluation: Apparently Ssuit's management failed Marketing 101 - the later one enters a market segment, the smaller its' share of that market segment. I'd give them an "E" for effort in trying to be all things to all PC Applications, but they are competing with well financed, long term, experienced, world class competitors . Not even Mozilla tried this, they went only as far as Sunbird calendar. Want a well supported, free, with many language spell checkers, fully Microsoft Office compatible, with features added like PDF creator, etc. GET OPEN OFFICE 3.1. It was surprising to see a product from South Africa and PC Worlds comments. To the South Africans I'd say, keep trying, find your own niche instead of reinventing everything under one package and proclaiming ease of use. Find people or companies to collaborate with, that's what Open Office did; i.e. Sun Java. Good Luck!

• Reviewed by: magicdash

  06-15-2009

  Duration of ownership: 3 Days

  Strengths: An all - in - one suite, good interface.

  Weaknesses: Slows down system to crawl, somewhat tiny text.

  Overall Evaluation: It's only for a much more speedy computer system, otherwise go back to MS Word or Open Office.

• Reviewed by: Didos007

  05-21-2009

  Duration of ownership: 7 Months

  Strengths: Very small and efficient software. Capable of exporting documents to many formats. Has over 30 very useful applications included in the office suite.

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall Evaluation: This is still the best free office suite available for download. Does not need Java or DotNet to run. I don't care for what everybody else has to say, if you had any problems with the software, you should have contacted the author directly through his website. He has an excellent support staff that is able to help you in any way necessary.

• Reviewed by: influence52

  03-16-2008

  Duration of ownership: 0 Days

  Strengths: Simple, Fast

  Weaknesses: Looks horrible, 10 years behind in looks and structure.

  Overall Evaluation: Stick with MS Office or Open Office

• Reviewed by: Haynes

  03-16-2008

  Duration of ownership: 0 Months

  Strengths: terrible

  Weaknesses: everything

  Overall Evaluation: Why in the world did PC recomend this POS. It is terrible. No uninstall, and tried to take over my computer.

• Reviewed by: me2too

  03-15-2008

  Duration of ownership: 0 Months

  Strengths:

  Weaknesses: As you get older your eyesight changes and the icons are too small and no way to enlarge them

  Overall Evaluation:

• Reviewed by: gfree

  03-14-2008

  Duration of ownership: 1 Days

  Strengths: This program was never allowed to be used as it attempted to hijack my desktop and did not provide an uninstall option.

  Weaknesses: Hijacked my desktop setting and over-rode the settings. I had to uninstall at registry level to remove program. I would not recommend this program to anyone.

  Overall Evaluation: worthless program...

• Reviewed by: MJJones60

  03-14-2008

  Duration of ownership: 1 Days

  Strengths: Features as advertised. If you don't speak Afrikaans there are several deletable files in that language.

  Weaknesses: Be prepared to open and re-save all your MS Word and other docs in Rich Text Format. Fifth Element will NOT open .doc files. Compatible with Pascal and C++ files, and C++ header files.

  Overall Evaluation: The Access and Excel substitutions seem to be more powerful and useful than the word processing program. But not being able to open old Word files is a deal-buster for me. If you're a beginning computer user with no list of past documents to speak of, this could work for you. If you need backward compatibility, I've had good success with Open Office, also free.