Over the years, Microsoft has earned the top spot for office suite software. Microsoft office has evolved into a powerhouse set of applications, and basically the “standard” for most businesses, students and home users. But, you will pay a premium price for it.
However, you can get Microsoft compatible applications for word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and more completely free in the OpenOffice application available at OpenOffice.org.
The latest release of OpenOffice is quite refined and is worthy office suite alternative.