Wordperfect Office X4
Price: $599
Once the staple of the word processing era in the early days of Windows, WordPerfect is now a whole office suite taking on Microsoft on its own turf. With writing, spredsheeting, multimedia and email tools it’s a fully fleshed out collection of business tools, able to handle more than 60 file formats from other applications including Microsoft Office.
But is it worth the money when programs like OpenOffice and Lotus Symphony are free? It’s packed with almost every feature you’d expect in an office suite and has add-ons such as 200Mb of online storage so it’s certainly a great product, but business applications with almost as much to offer can be found for much less. Rating: 3