Which Microsoft Office alternatives can we find

Microsoft Office has been dominating the market for office suites for approximately three decades, a domain that is more than justified, since the different versions launched have always been the best in their segment, being able to say that even well above their competitors . However, the fact that Microsoft Office (MS Office) is a very complete solution and full of possibilities makes many of its features dispensable for most users, who use little more than the word processor (Word) to basic level.

Alternatives of Microsoft Office

▸LibreOffice

It is a strongest alternative to Microsoft Office and the most popular. In fact, at MuyComputer we give a lot of coverage to this suite whose development began from a fork of OpenOffice by the community. In addition to being free, it is a free software project published under various licenses, although the main one is MPLv2.0. Its applications are Writer (word processor), Calc, Impress, Math (creation and editing of mathematical formulas), Draw (vector graphics editor) and Base (database management similar to Access).

▸WPS Office

WPS Office is another free alternative to MS Office, although it is proprietary Chinese software that has no link to OpenOffice. WPS Office, which was previously called Kingsoft Office, stands out above all for how well it supports documents under Microsoft formats, making many users prefer to use it as an alternative to MS Office over LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Although it may not seem like it, it is a fairly veteran project, whose first version appeared in 1988.

▸GoogleDocs

Storage in the cloud has gained much prominence, so the use of an office suite that works over the Internet can be a good alternative. In addition to saving disk space, you gain in other aspects such as the possibility of being able to edit documents anywhere and even through multiple devices, with the only limitation of needing an Internet connection.

It offers word processor, spreadsheets, presentations, survey software, web creation, map overlay editor (My Maps), code editor for the G-Apps Script language and database manager.

▸OpenOffice

Formerly called OpenOffice.org and was born in 2000 as a result of the release of the StarOffice source code by Sun Microsystems. It came under Oracle after acquiring it from Sun Microsystems and was then donated in 2011 to the Apache Foundation, which since then has been in charge of managing OpenOffice as a project and promoting its development.

Despite everything, it is still a very capable office suite that offers support for Windows, Mac and Linux. As applications it has the same as LibreOffice under the same names and supports Microsoft formats.

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