Non-Microsoft alternatives to mail/browser/Office products...

[Fishwhenican]

Great choice going to OpenOffice and Firefox/Thunderbird.

I have been using Openoffice for about a year now and have never had any problems with it. I am also in the process of trying to move our whole, or at least as many of our users as I can, away from MS-Office to OpenOffice. I had our finance guy look at it and he said the spreadsheet application was fine but that Text program wasn't impressive so he thought they sould still want to use office. This is from the same guy who is cutting our budgets!!! Stupid. Told him I'll have to start charging his department for the MS-Office licenses they use and he still hasn't gotten back to me. :-)

I have been using Firefox for a long time now, LOVE IT! No spyware/adware issues at all! The only thing I use IE for now is to do Windows critical updates!

I just installed Thundrebird at home because my outlook stopped working and it imported all the old email and addresses from outlook with no problem. Pretty impressive since I couldn't even get Outlook to open!! I haven't played with it much but the interface was good and I liked it at first glance. I am sure if it's 1/2 as good as Firefox it will be great and I am almost Microsoft free!!!

I still need to play around with the Novell Linux desktop and if I can do everything I want with that I will switch over to that as well!!!!