Ability Office is an office suite for Microsoft Windows published by Ability Plus Software. An alpha version of Ability Office for Linux has been developed but work has stalled on this version. In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office application suite, productivity suite, offimatic suite or integrated offimatic program, is a software suite intended to be used by typical clerical and knowledge workers. ... Jump to: navigation, search Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worlds largest software company, with global annual sales in the tens of billions of US dollars and nearly 60,000 employees in more than 90 countries. ... Jump to: navigation, search Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments and operating systems for personal computers and servers. ...

Ability Office is a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office and WordPerfect Office. Version 4 of Ability Office offers Office 2003 look and an expanded number of applications. Jump to: navigation, search Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity programs created by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. ... WordPerfect Office is an Office applications suite. ...

Ability Office is popular with OEM system builders in the United Kingdom, possibly for nationalistic reasons (Ability are based in England), but more likely for the fact that it provides more features than Microsoft Works at a similar OEM price. OEM is an acronym for either of the following: Original Equipment Manufacturer Office of Emergency Management. ... Microsoft Works is an office suite available from the Microsoft Corporation. ...

It offers the following components:

• Write - A word processor similar to Microsoft Word.
• Spreadsheet - A spreadsheet equivalent to Microsoft Excel.
• Database - database application obviously.
• Ability Photopaint - bitmap graphics editor.
• Presentation - a new program in Version 4 similar to Microsoft PowerPoint
• Photoalbum - a new photo application.
• Mail - an email program akin to Microsoft Outlook.

Microsoft Word is a word processing application from Microsoft. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Jump to: navigation, search Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program written and distributed by Microsoft for computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system and for Apple Macintosh computers. ... Ability Photopaint is a proprietary commercial bitmap graphics editor published by Ability Plus, which is part of the Ability Office office suite running on Microsoft Windows. ... Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. ... Screenshot of Outlook 2003 Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. ...

Release History

See also

• List of office suites
• Comparison of office suites

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External links

• Ability Plus Software Home Page