Best Windows Freeware - Office Software

OpenOffice.org aims to compete with Microsoft Office and emulate its look and feel where suitable. It can read and write most of the file formats found in Microsoft Office, and many other applications; an essential feature of the suite for many users. Download here

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.1 Mb), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. The new version introduces new exciting features, including word capturing, advanced search, minimizing to system tray, bookmarks synchronization and more. Download here

PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. Once installed, it allows the user to select PDFCreator as their printer, allowing almost any application to print to PDF. Download here

Evolution is a personal information manager and workgroup information management tool. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. Its user interface and functionality are similar to Microsoft Outlook. Download here

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more. Download here

Mozilla Sunbird® is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. Our goal is to provide you with full-featured and easy to use calendar application that you can use around the world. Sunbird® lets you manage your schedule easily, and store it where you want to. Download here

LogMeIn Hamachi is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service that easily sets up in 10 minutes, and enables secure remote access to your business network, anywhere there's an Internet connection. It works with your existing firewall, and requires no additional configuration. Download here

SimpleD Budget is personal or household financial management software. You can keep track of your expenses for each month by allocating your income into categories such as Mortgage, Entertainment, etc. As you spend money it will let you see how much you have left, or see how fast you are spending. Download here

Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit. Download here

Stickies is a computerised version of Post-It® notes. The design goal behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Stickies will not mess with your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores all information in a single text-based ini file. Download here