In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a software suite intended to be used by typical clerical worker and knowledge workers. Computing is usually defined like the activity of using and developing Computer technology Computer hardware and software. A software suite or application suite is a collection of Computer programs usually Application software and Programming software of related functionality Clerk, the vocational title commonly refers to a White-collar worker who conducts general office or in some instances sales tasks Knowledge worker (also referred to as as intellectual worker or brain worker) is someone who is employed due to his or her knowledge of a subject matter rather than The components are generally distributed together, have a consistent user interface and usually can interact with each other, sometimes in ways that the operating system would not normally allow. The user interface (or Human Computer Interface) is the aggregate of means by which people&mdash the users '&mdash interact with the System An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination

Platform

A distinction should be made between offline (e. g. Microsoft Office and Star Office), hybrid (e. Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications servers and services collectively referred to as an Office suite, for the Microsoft Windows and StarOffice is Sun Microsystems ' proprietary Office suite software package. g. Microsoft Office Live and Google Docs read along with Google Gears) and purely online (e. Microsoft Office Live is an Internet -based software service designed for Microsoft Office users and small businesses Google Docs is a free Web-based Word processor, Spreadsheet, and Presentation application offered by Google. Gears, formerly Google Gears, is software offered by Google that "enables more powerful web applications by adding new features to your web browser g. Thinkfree Office and Zoho Office Suite) versions of office suites. ThinkFree Office by Haansoft ThinkFree Co Ltd a subsidiary company of Haansoft Corporation The Zoho Office Suite is an Online office suite which includes tools for word processing spreadsheets presentations databases note-taking wikis CRM project management

Typical components

• Word processor
• Spreadsheet
• Presentation program
• Database
• Graphics suite
• Communication
• Email client
• Personal information manager
• Groupware
• Web log analysis software

Current suites

OpenOffice. A spreadsheet is a Computer application that simulates a paper worksheet A presentation program is a Computer software package used to display information normally in the form of a Slide show. A Computer Database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system A graphics suite is a Software suite for Graphics work that are distributed together Communication is the process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood the same way An e-mail client, aka Mail User Agent (MUA aka e-mail reader is a frontend Computer program used to manage E-mail. Collaborative software (also referred to as groupware or workgroup support systems) is software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their Web log analysis software (also called a web log analyzer) is a simple kind of Web analytics software that parses a log file from a Web server org 2. 0 for Windows editing a text document

The currently dominant office suite is Microsoft Office, which is available for Microsoft Windows and the Apple Macintosh. Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications servers and services collectively referred to as an Office suite, for the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc It has become a proprietary de-facto standard in office software. Proprietary software is Computer software on which the producer has set restrictions on use private modification copying, or republishing.

An alternative is any of the OpenDocument suites, which use the free OpenDocument file format, defined by ISO/IEC 26300. The OpenDocument format (ODF is a File format for electronic office documents such as Spreadsheets Charts presentations and Free software or software libre is Software that can be used studied and modified without restriction and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified The OpenDocument format (ODF is a File format for electronic office documents such as Spreadsheets Charts presentations and The most prominent of these is OpenOffice.org, open-source software that is available for Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and other platforms, and has spawned several derivatives such as the Mac-native NeoOffice. OpenOfficeorg ( OOo or OOo) is a free Cross-platform office application suite available for a number of different computer Open source software (OSS began as a marketing campaign for Free software. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc NeoOffice is a fork of the free / open source OpenOfficeorg Office suite that is ported to Mac OS X. Other free or less expensive office suites include StarOffice, KOffice and Celframe Office. StarOffice is Sun Microsystems ' proprietary Office suite software package. KOffice is an Office suite for the K Desktop Environment ( KDE) Celframe Office is an Office suite for Microsoft Windows developed by the US based IT company Celframe. These programs support many of the features of Microsoft Office, and can open the files it creates and save new documents in those formats.

A new category of "online word processors" allows editing of centrally stored documents using a web browser.

References

• Free Web-based Office alternatives
• a good article on free office suites
• DMOZ Office Suites

See also

• Comparison of office suites
• Web operating system
• Web desktop

External links

• DMOZ / Office_Suites