Tools
These are everyday essential Open Source Tools and free Downloads.
| About | Notes | Download |
| OpenOffice.org | Complete Office Productivity Suite compatible with the de facto standard Microsoft Office file formats such as (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .rtf ) and many legacy file formats. |
OpenOffice All Versions |
| Mozilla | Web Browser | Firefox |
| FileZilla | FTP | FileZilla |
| WinSCP | SCP, SFTP, FTP | WinSCP |
| CygWin | "a Linux-like environment for Windows" | CygWin |
| VMware | Virtual Machines | VMware Player |
| RealVNC | Remote Desktop | VNC Free Edition |
| Adobe | (.pdf) Reader | Adobe Acrobat Reader |
| Adobe | Flash Media Plugin | Flash Player |
| Microsoft | Rich Text Format (.rtf) Text (.txt) Web Page formats (.htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml) WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd) WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd) Works 6.0 (.wps) Works 7.0 (.wps) XML (.xml) |
Word 2003 Viewer |
| Microsoft | Word Document (.docx) Word Macro-Enabled Document (.docm) Rich Text Format (.rtf) Text (.txt) Web Page formats (.htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml) WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd) WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd) Works 6.0 (.wps) Works 7.0 (.wps) XML (.xml) |
Word 2007 Viewer |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (.xls) |
Excel 2003 Viewer |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (.xlsx) |
Excel 2007 Viewer |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (.ppt) Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (.ppt) Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 (.ppt) Microsoft PowerPoint 97 (.ppt) |
PowerPoint 2003 Viewer |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (.ppt) Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (.ppt) Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 (.ppt) Microsoft PowerPoint 97 (.ppt) |
PowerPoint 2007 Viewer |
| Microsoft | (.VSD) (.VSS) (.VST) (.VDX) (.VSX)(.VTX) | Visio 2003 Viewer |
| Microsoft | (.VSD) (.VSS) (.VST) (.VDX) (.VSX)(.VTX) | Visio 2007 Viewer |