With so much top-quality freeware available nowadays, there's no longer any need to shell out for Microsoft Office in order to get a quality word processor or spreadsheet program. There are a number of perfectly good alternatives that you can download and install free of charge.

One such example is Free Office, from Softmaker. The very latest version is a 75 MB download which works just fine on Windows 7, 8 and 10. It includes word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics which contain all the most important features from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The program is malware-free according to VirusTotal and Web of Trust.

To obtain the program, all you need to supply is an email address on the download page. Make sure you enter a valid address, though, as you'll be sent a registration code that you'll need to enter when you run the program for the first time.  Read More