Bell ingham Technical CollegeLibrary eLearning Program

Student Technology Support Desk Gary Kartchner

Microsoft products have become the foundationfor most computer environments,

but there are alternatives for Office Suites, both for a price and free.

Apache OpenOffice

Document Foundation's LibreOffice

Kingsoft Office WPS Office Free

SoftMaker FreeOffice

SSuite Office Software

KDE Calligra

Lotus Symphony

MSWord 2013 Menu

OpenOffice 4.1 Menu

SoftMaker Office: Standard version for $79.

Corel WordPerfect Office: The Home and Student Edition is $89.

Google Docs Zoho Docs

Office Online

Think Free Office Live Documents [Subscription]

OX – [Still under development]

Just a few in alphabetical order, most offer 5-10MB free, secured storage for single users – with more ‘cloud’ storage for a price:

Google Drive Box

Bitcasa Cubby

Dropbox JustCloud SugarSync

Linux. It is Free, with several versions available - including openSUSE

Check out BTC’s Annual NorthwestLinuxFest

April 25th & 26th, 2015

Operating Systems

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Too much information!!!!!

Bellingham Technical College Library e-Learning Program - 2015