If you head to WPS.com, you find only Android, iOS and Linux versions of the suite. One of my longtime favorites, WPS Office (formerly Kingsoft Office), has become something of a mess. (Excuse my mockery, but this is such a paltry value-add, one few people ever use, yet Microsoft wants you to think it's all that and a bag of chips.) My question for you, fellow cheeps: What's your solution? My guess is you're not paying for Office either (unless you're getting it cheap or free as a student or from your company), but you still need word processing, spreadsheets and/or presentations.
Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET But for years many of us have been spoiled by Google Docs, OpenOffice and other free alternatives, to the point where it just seems ludicrous to pay for Microsoft's suite - even with its 1 terabyte of OneDrive cloud storage and (snicker) 60 minutes of monthly Skype time. Microsoft's free online version of Word is not too shabby. Word, Excel and PowerPoint have been refined and polished to a fine shine, and Outlook is arguably the best desktop mail client currently available, especially for business users. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our., and with it the Microsoft adopted a couple years back: $69 per year for the single-user Personal Edition, $99 per year for the five-user Home Edition or $149.99 to buy the suite outright. NetShade will route your web connection through either a public anonymous proxy server, or NetShade's own dedicated.ĬNET's Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more.
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