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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. In search type user:matthewhlme

General Information

Developer First public release Predecessor Stable version Operating system Standard cost (USD) OpenDocument support License Free software/Open source Online capability
Ability Office Ability Plus Software 1985 4.15 Windows $59.99 No Proprietary No
AppleWorks Apple 1991 ClarisWorks 6.2.9 Mac OS, Mac OS X and Windows $79 No Proprietary No
Corel Office Corel 1991 WordPerfect (1982) X3 (or 13) Windows $300 ? Proprietary ?
GNOME Office GNOME Foundation
AbiSource
? 2.4.5/1.6.3/1.9 & 0.62 Cross-platform Free Yes GPL Yes
GobeProductive Gobe Software 1998 3.04 / 2.01 Windows and BeOS $49.95 No Proprietary No
iWork Apple 2005 '06 Mac OS X $79 No Proprietary No
KOffice KDE Project 1998 1.6.1 BSD, Linux, Solaris Free Yes LGPL and GPL Yes
Lotus SmartSuite IBM 1992Template:Fn 9.8 Windows and OS/2 $190 No Proprietary No
Microsoft Office Microsoft August 30, 1993 Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Forethought PowerPoint 2007 (12.0) Windows and Macintosh varies by region and edition Yes (with free plugin) Proprietary No Yes (Microsoft Office Live)
NeoOffice Patrick Luby and Edward Peterlin 2005-06-02 OpenOffice.org 1.1 for Mac OS X 1.2 Mac OS X Free Yes GPL Yes
OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org Organization October 2001 StarOffice 2.1 All versions require Java runtime environment Cross-platform Free Yes LGPL Yes
SoftMaker Office SoftMaker 1989 2004/2006 FreeBSD, Linux, PocketPC and Windows $69.95 TextMaker 2006 has ability to import Proprietary No
StarOffice Sun Microsystems 1995 StarWriter 8.0 Cross-platform $70 Yes Proprietary No
ThinkFree Haansun 1994 Cross-platform Free Yes Proprietary No Fully online
WPS Office Kingsoft 1980s 2005 Windows and Linux $150 No Proprietary No
Developer First public release Predecessor Stable version Operating system Standard cost (USD) OpenDocument Support License Open source

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 Template:Fn Partial Template:Fn 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 Template:Fn 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

Main components

Word processor Spreadsheet Presentation Email Flowchart Drawing: bitmap / vector Formula : mathematics / chemistry . Data management Project management Desktop publishing Web design Collaboration
Ability Office Yes Ability Write Yes Ability Spreadsheet Yes Ability Presentation Yes Ability Draw Yes Ability Photopaint No Yes Ability Database No No
AppleWorks Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No No
Corel WordPerfect Office Yes WordPerfect Yes Quattro Pro Yes Corel Presentations Yes WordPerfect MAIL Yes Corel Presentations Yes Corel Presentations Yes Equation Editor or WP Legacy Equation Editor Yes Paradox Yes No
GNOME Office Yes Abiword Yes Gnumeric No Yes Evolution Yes Dia Yes GIMP, Inkscape No Yes Mergeant Yes Planner No
GobeProductive
iWork Yes Pages Yes, with certain table and chart elements in Pages and Keynote Yes Keynote Yes, note: Mail.app and iCal are built in features of OS X Yes Pages
KOffice Yes Kword Yes KSpread Yes KPresenter No Template:Fn Yes Kivio, Kugar and KChart Yes Krita, Karbon14 Yes KFormula Yes Kexi Yes KPlato No
Lotus SmartSuite Yes Lotus Word Pro Yes Lotus 1-2-3 Yes Lotus Freelance Graphics Yes Lotus Freelance Graphics Yes Equation Editor Yes Lotus Approach
Microsoft Office Yes Microsoft Word Yes Microsoft Excel Yes Microsoft Powerpoint Yes Microsoft Outlook Yes Microsoft Visio No Yes Equation Editor Yes Microsoft Access Yes Microsoft Project Yes Microsoft Publisher Yes Microsoft SharePoint Designer Yes Microsoft Office Groove
NeoOffice Yes Yes Yes No No
OpenOffice.org Yes OpenOffice.org Writer Yes OpenOffice.org Calc Yes OpenOffice.org Impress Yes, with certain drawing elements in OpenOffice.org Draw Yes OpenOffice.org Draw Yes OpenOffice.org Draw Yes OpenOffice.org Math Yes OpenOffice.org Base No No
SoftMaker Office Yes Textmaker Yes PlanMaker No No No Yes (German Only) Yes DataMaker (German only) No No No
StarOffice Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
WPS Office Yes Yes Yes
Word processor Spreadsheet Presentation Email Flowchart Drawing: bitmap / vector Formula : mathematics / chemistry . Data management Project management Desktop publishing Web design Collaboration

Notes

Template:Fnb Release date of Lotus SmartSuite from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3563/is_n7_v9/ai_14346979

Template:Fnb 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.

Template:Fnb Only Abiword, Gnumeric, GIMP and Inkscape are available for MS Windows.

Template:Fnb Only Abiword is available as a native application.

Template:Fnb Not included in KOffice itself. http://www.kontact.org is provided for KDE.

See also