10 Free Alternatives To Costly Softwares
2. Google Docs
Category: Document editing software
Google Docs is an application that supports text documents, presentations and spreadsheets. It is rich in its features and has innovative useful features that allow monitoring the document in real time. It facilitates real time sharing of the particular document which is missing in MS Word. Google Docs makes all your documents to get automatically saved in your Google Drive cloud storage space. It lets you open documents saved in your Gmail inbox or create a new one online.
The Home and Student edition of MS Office (2013) with a single PC license costs 
5,499. You get Word, PowerPoint, Excel and One Note in the package along with 7GB of Sky-Drive storage to store documents.
3. Microsoft Office Web Apps
Category: Document editing software
Users familiar with MS Office, will be comfortable with Microsoft’s free online office suite designed for SkyDrive users. It offers 7GB of free cloud storage for your documents. The app lets you create or upload Word, Excel, PowerPoint as well as OneNote files to SkyDrive and edit them. It allows the documents to be shared and you can authorize people to edit the same too. Access control is taken a step ahead with MS developing a feature that allows you to set the password for certain users to get their hands on the doc.
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