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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.
General Information
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 | (Windows 98 or later) | |||||
| AppleWorks | ||||||
| GNOME Office | ||||||
| Gobe Productive | (Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP) | |||||
| iWork | ||||||
| KOffice | ||||||
| Lotus SmartSuite | ||||||
| Microsoft Office | (2001) | |||||
| NeoOffice | (Mac OS X v10.3 or above) | |||||
| OpenOffice.org | ||||||
| SoftMaker Office | ||||||
| StarOffice | ||||||
| WordPerfect Office | (Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP) | |||||
| WPS | ||||||
| Office suite | Windows | Mac OS X | Mac OS 9 | Linux | BSD | Unix |
Main components
Notes
Release date of Lotus SmartSuite from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3563/is_n7_v9/ai_14346979
Kexi is available for Windows as a commercial product. A Cygwin port of KOffice is in progress although the status of that port is unknown.
Only Abiword, Gnumeric, GIMP and Inkscape are available for MS Windows.
Only Abiword is available as a native application
See also
"Comparison of office suites"