Free Open Source Software for Windows
Stop burning your hard earned money in buying software for your Windows based Computers. What if the most essential software that we use comes free of cost?
Yes, here are some of the list of Software Utilities from the Open Source community. These are proven, widely used, highly secured and free from Spy ware.
Office Suites
OpenOffice
It is the leading open-source office software suite used after MS-Office. It has everything that one needs. Comes with a Word Processor, Spreadsheet program, Presentation Utility, Graphics and Databases. Available in many languages and works well on all Operating Systems. It can also read & write files from other Office Software packages.
AbiWord
It’s a fee word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It’s small, fast and has great features. Compatible with MS Word, OpenDocument format and with Open Office. Available in many languages and supports all the Operating Systems.
Browser
Mozilla Firefox
The favorite among the blogger community and considered to be the world’s best browsers by many. It’s popularity is every increasing. With lot of features like Tabs, Plugins, Themes, Extensions, no doubt in saying it a Premier Browser.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Another master piece from the makers of your favorite browser maker, Mozilla. One of the powerful email application with many features like Advanced Folder Views, Message Tagging, History Navigation, Easy access to Popular Web mail services and many others.
Peer-to-Peer File sharing
Cabos
It’s a Gnutella file sharing program based on Limewire and Acquisition. Provides simple sidebar interface, Mojito DHT Support, Firewall to Firewall transfers. No Spyware. No Adware.
Gnucleus
It’s a Windows based application for accessing the Gnutella and G2 networks. A good Gnutella search and file sharing program.
Azureus
A powerful and complicated BitTorrent client. Finding, downloading and playing high quality and HD videos easily with this tool. With so many features one would take some time to understand it.
RSS
RSSOwl
RSSOwl is a an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Reader or a Feed Reader or simply an Aggregator that lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It’s platform-independent.
Instant Messaging
Pidgin
It’s an instant messaging client that lets you connect to multiple IM accounts like AOL, MSN, Yahoo, GTalk, Jabber etc. using a single application.
Do you like Open Source software? What’s your opinion on it?
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Comments
Thanks for the list of resources provided. I am using some of them on the above list already.
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@Dennis, I started loving the Open Source software. Yes, security is the important feature that I would consider before selecting one!
@Nihar, I liked the RSSOwl application. That’s the only Aggregator I installed in my system!
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Ok let me first pick the applications I’ve already used or use.
1. Firefox (using)
2. Pidgin (using)
3. Thunderbird (used to but I don’t use any mail client now)
4. OpenOffice (have used on Linux, yet to try on Windows)
5. AbiWord (used on Linux, it rocks)
I think one is Gnumeric which is for Spreadsheet 
Haven’t used it much but you can try it out.
I love open source software as long as it’s safe, security wise…I always look for those versions first, before paying.
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