Great Free Software for Windows

Here is the situation. You buy a new computer and it has Windows on it. Not much more. You want an Office Suite. Microsoft has one but you have to fork over about $200.00. There are a few other suites that cost about the same or a little less.

You know Linux has lots of software that is free. Lots of it has been ported over to Windows. That means that you can use all kinds of Linux software on Windows.

Here is a small list of stuff that you can download the Windows version and install it on your computer.

Office Software.
# OpenOffice.org
# OOExtras
# OOo Label Templates
# AbiWord Processor
# PDFCreator
# Scribus Desktop Publisher
# GNumeric Spreadsheet
# Gnome Office

Podcasting.
# Juice

Web Browsing
Firefox
Opera

IM Instant Message
Pidgin

EMail
Thunderbird

Sound Recording
Audacity

Graphics
Gimp
Paint.NET
Inkscape

Note Taking
Freemind
Keynote

Stars and Outer Space
Celestia
Stellarium

Anti Virus
ClamWin

Mapping Tools
NASA World Win

All this is just to wet your appetite. There is more for Windows out there.

You can find bunches more if you move to Linux.

Have Fun.