Comparison of office suites
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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. The table only includes systems that are widely used and currently available.
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[edit] General Information
[edit] Operating system support
The operating systems the office suites were designed to run on without emulation; for the given office suite/OS combination, there are six possibilities:
- No indicates that it does not exist or was never released.
- Partial indicates that while the office suite works, it lacks important functionality compared to versions for other OSs; it is still being developed however.
- Beta indicates that while a version of the office suite is fully functional and has been released, it is still in development (e.g. for stability).
- Yes indicates that the office suite has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
- Dropped indicates that while the office suite works, new versions are no longer being released for the indicated OS; the number in parentheses is the last known stable version which was officially released for that OS.
- Included indicates that the office suite comes pre-packaged as part of or has been integrated into the operating system.
Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common operating systems today.
| Office suite | Windows | Mac OS X | Mac OS 9 | Linux | BSD | Unix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ability Office | Yes (Windows 98 or later) | No | No | No | No | No |
| AppleWorks | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| GNOME Office | Partial 3 | Partial 4 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Gobe Productive | Yes (Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP) | No | No | No | No | No |
| iWork | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| KOffice | Partial 2 | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lotus SmartSuite | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Microsoft Office | Yes | Yes | Dropped (2001) | No | No | No |
| NeoOffice | No | Yes (Mac OS X v10.3 or above) | No | No | No | No |
| OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SoftMaker Office | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| StarOffice | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| WordPerfect Office | Yes (Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP) | No | No | No | No | No |
| WPS | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Office suite | Windows | Mac OS X | Mac OS 9 | Linux | BSD | Unix |
[edit] Main components
[edit] Notes
Note 1: Release date of Lotus SmartSuite from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3563/is_n7_v9/ai_14346979
Note 2: Kexi is available for Windows as a commercial product. A Cygwin port of KDE[1] (which includes KOffice) is in progress although the status of that port is poor. With Koffice 2.0 based on KDE4 native MS Windows and MacOS ports will be available.
Note 3: Only Abiword, Gnumeric, GIMP and Inkscape are available for MS Windows.
Note 4: Only Abiword is available as a native application.
Note 5: Not included in KOffice itself. http://www.kontact.org is provided for KDE.
