good free, ms compatiablem, office program

softmaker have a office 2007 compatiable office program - but it is a fraction of the size. the good news is, that it is free for the time being

Christmas is coming early this year!

You can now download SoftMaker Office 2008 and a font package free of
charge - and do good at the same time.

That's because until December 31, SoftMaker donates 10 Euro cents
for every download, supporting aid and development projects around
the world.

Tell your friends and colleagues about our Load and Help 2010 campaign.
Our goal is to surpass last year's donations of 6,089 Euro!

Find out more:
http://www.loadandhelp.com

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for linux users, this works in wine (the defaultfont does not work - but other fonts do.

watso is not too sure, how this installs in windows - but using linux, it is easy to strip the program into its constituent parts - eg, if all that a person needs, is the word processor, then it is a simple matter of deleting everything else