Free? There may be good, then! No! The quality, availability and scope of free software and open source software for Windows is excellent and rivals, if not greater than some consumer software. So what kind of applications are available? Almost everything you can imagine. I shall not enumerate all that is available because it would require pages and you can easily do a Google search on your browser, but prepare for the long list to go. A good starting point for Windows is www. opensourcewindows. org. This site does not list all, but rather the lists of the most popular. So let's take a look at some of them. One of the most popular is Open Office. Who is a complete set of tools for the superstar word processing and spreadsheets. free and compatible replacement for Microsoft Word documents. It also supports the OpenDocument format and has something to other office suites do not have the ability to convert your PDF documents. The best of all, OpenOffice can be downloaded and used completely free. OpenOffice is available under the LGPL license. This means that in May used for any purpose – private management, commercial, educational, public. You can install it on as many PCs as you like. You can make copies and give them to family, friends, students, employees – anyone you want. OK, we saved approximately $ 500. Let's see what else is offered. There are browsers, mail clients, FTP, media players, personal finance, etc, etc. One of my favorites and I use a lot is Gimp. Your full name, GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is much more than the manipulation of the program, however. Gimp is really a rival to Photoshop and expand its use of graphics, creation of photo enhancement, special effects, drawing, the list is just covering the operation of the graphics you can l 'imagine. A great advantage with Gimp is the ability to open Photoshop PSD files with layer information that lets you edit the PSD is completely free I found myself in the Gimp rare occasions when I was in a Linux system and assumed that was just the Linux version of Windows Paint accessory. Boy, was I wrong! Although this is fairly easy to start using the open office suite Gimp is a whole new learning. It is, after all, a very specialized. Fortunately, the Internet is full of tutorials in varying degrees of quality and covering various aspects of working with Gimp. Unfortunately, because there is so it can take hours or days of sorting the wheat from the chaff and get what you really want to know to get started. Many of them are text and screen shots that are not always so easy to follow the video where you can see what happens. Being a frequent user of Gimp that I have developed a series of

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