Comparison between MS Office, Open Office and Google Docs?

Between MS Office, Open Office and Google Docs, which do you find most useful and why?


Do let me know the source(s), if any, of your answer.


Thank you.|||MS Office has the most polish and the most features -- it's also the most commonly used office suite, however, it is not free. An Office license usually costs around $60~200 depending on the type of license.



There is a free version of Office called Office Starter 2010 however it is ad supported and only has 2 apps: Word and Excel.



Open Office on the other hand is open source, and therefore free. It tries to emulate the look and feel of Microsoft Office as well as having most of the features of Microsoft Office. However, development of Open Office is slow and because of internal conflict, the project has forked into 2 directions, Open Office and Open Libre.



Google Docs is an online web app, it can be used if you have a Google account. Google Docs only has 3 applications -- a word processor, spreadsheet app and the powerpoint alternative.

It is very basic and only has a fraction of the functions of the other 2 programs, but the upside is that it can be used without installing any programs because it runs in the browser.

Also files you create on Google docs are hosted directly on Google servers.|||Microsoft office Is by far the best out of all of them. It is more compatible with other people (although open office is compatible with office documents) I find google docs lags in many of the advanced user features that office has. If cost is your issue, open office is a great alternative, although not a substitute for Microsoft office|||Both MS Office and OpenOffice need to run on a second operating system before they run successfully on your system, does .NET or Java ring a bell. ;)





Google docs is very basic but works well if you have a great internet connection.





You could also try free office software from ssuitesoft.com. Their software does not need Java or .NET to run. :)





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








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