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Office 2007 Home and Student contains PowerPoint and costs $127 retail. A far cry from $500.

Both of which are an even further cry from *free* and open: OpenOffice.org, which can save compatible powerpoint files if need be.

For the casual user, Linux and most open source software is only "free" if your time has no value.

I could easily use OpenOffice.org (and have), but it's slow and the files it creates don't format properly when opened on a machine with Office.

Every free/open PDF creator I have used has also sucked far more than Adobe Acrobat. Even the low-cost alternatives are awful.

I have to support a small office of novice computer users. Introducing free alternatives such as OpenOffice.org, PDF Creator, and Thunderbird has just been met with disaster time and time again.
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-Rob Riccardelli
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