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Microsoft Office Suite? Nah, LibreOffice!

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Having dived into free and open source software (FOSS)  and realized it's importance and freedom given,  I recommend you to use LibreOffice instead of the  Microsoft Office  Suite for viewing and creating all your documents and presentations.  I'm not saying this just because I support FOSS. I will provide solid reasons why you should migrate from Microsoft Office which is a proprietary software to LibreOffice which is totally free. LibreOffice was a part of Apache OpenOffice until 2010. Whether you have a windows machine or a Mac, LibreOffice can be installed on both. Microsoft Office It is a very good document viewing and editing software which will cater to all your needs with very few bugs and is easy to use. The price may be seen as a bit too high given that today the fight between computers and tablets is very competitive and that Windows 8 is not much used many people. One of the major advantages of MS Office is that it can handle enormous amounts of data