OpenOffice.org 3 - OpenOffice.org

Whether OpenOffice 3—the first version to run natively on OS X and Intel-based Macs—is right for you essentially comes down to this decision: can you live without the latest features in Microsoft Office 2008? Most of the tools you need for productivity are here... read more at Macworld

Logic Studio - Apple

Apple sent shock waves through the professional music industry last fall with the release of the industrial-strength, full-featured Logic Studio suite, which now represents the absolute best value for anyone looking to establish a digital audio recording and editing workstation from scratch. It contains everything you’ll need to create polished music - just add talent and stir... read more at MacLife

Papyrus - rom-logicware

Papyrus, a suite comprising word processor, spreadsheet and database, comes in two flavours, Works and Office. The former can be used for free if you take the time to register with the company... read more at MacUserUK

iWork ’06 - Apple

iWork ’06, the latest version of Apple’s productivity suite, may deceive you. A quick look could make you think that not much has changed. But a deeper examination reveals many new features that long-term users have wanted and several longstanding—and annoying—bugs that have finally been squashed... read more at MacAddict

OpenOSX Office 1.5.1 - OpenOSX

OpenOSX Office includes AbiWord 2.2.0 for word processing, Gnumeric 1.4.0, a spreadsheet app, SodiPodi 0.34 to create vector images, and Diagram 0.94 to create flowcharts and schematic diagrams. SodiPodi and Diagram only partially make up for the suite’s lack of a presentation or a combination e-mail and calendar program to replace PowerPoint and Entourage ... read more at Macworld

Production Suite - Apple

Apple's new Production Suite is a bargain moviemaker's dream, serving up three meat-and-potatoes video apps in one package: Final Cut Pro HD for editing, DVD Studio Pro 3 for DVD authoring, and Motion 1.0 for building slick animated title sequences and motion graphics. You'd pay about $1,800 if you bought these apps separately, but the Production Suite costs only $1,299—a hefty savings... read more at MacAddict

Microsoft Office 2004 - Microsoft

Microsoft Word has always represented a struggle between two aspects at odds: a clean, simple interface and a teeming mass of undiscovered features -- some of them treasures, and others that are just plain clunky. This year's incarnation, Microsoft Word 2004, brings some new, interesting ways to work, such as the Notebook Layout view with audio notes. And Microsoft has tackled the discoverability factor by adding new buttons and Formatting Palette panels. At the same time, other features, such as Track Changes, have become clunkier ... read more at Macworld

iLife '04 - Apple

Integration is greatly improved in iLife '04—huge iTunes and iPhoto libraries appeared instantly when we loaded their respective media shelves in iMovie or iDVD. However, there's still room for growth—for example, you still have to return to iTunes to create custom Playlists for iPhoto or iDVD slideshows ... read more at MacAddict

RagTime 5.6 - ComGrafix

The idea behind RagTime 5.6.5 is very appealing: business publishing software that provides midlevel page-layout capabilities, à la Adobe PageMaker, as well as word processing, charting, and spreadsheet tools. But the reality of RagTime 5.6.5 falls far short of its promise. While the program has several great features, it also has some incomplete ones ... read more at Macworld

iLife - Apple

"We always suspected that Apple's little i stood for integration, and iLife is proof enough: four apps (iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD) rolled into one consumer-level multimedia powerhouse" ... read more at MacAddict

Corel Graphics Suite 11 - Corel

"The suite comprises three programs - CorelDRAW for vector illustration, Corel Photo-Paint for bitmap image editing and R.A.V.E. for producing complex Flash movies" ... read more at MacUser UK

ThinkFree Office 2.1 - ThinkFree

"ThinkFree Office is a Microsoft Office-compatible program that runs on Mac OS X, OS 9 and Windows thanks to its use of Java" ... read more at macHOME

ThinkFree Office 2.0 - ThinkFree

"[ThinkFree Office is] designed to be a "helper" application for users who don't have immediate access to [Microsoft] Office or who can't justify Office's hefty price for the occasional work they do with the four-program suite" ... read more at Macworld

PowerPoint v.X (part of Office v.X suite) - Microsoft

"PowerPoint v.X is the latest incarnation of Microsoft's professional presentation application. It adds several handy features to ease the portability of presentations, and offers full compatibility with Mac OS X." ... read more at macHOME

Corel Graphics Suite 10 - Corel

Corel has packed virtually every graphics application a home or professional user needs into the Corel Graphics Suite 10 box. The big guns include CorelDraw 10, a vector and design application; Photo-Paint 10, a bitmap editor; and RAVE, a Web animation app ... read more at MacAddict

Office v.X - Microsoft

Few applications log as much time on our Macs as the Microsoft Office suite: the industry-standard Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, respectively; and Entourage, the popular email client, contact manager, and calendar program ... read more at MacAddict

Entourage v.X (part of Office v.X suite) - Microsoft

Microsoft's Entourage v.X is a personal information manager that allows you to send and receive email, manage contacts and schedule events. ... read more at macHOME

Stone Studio - Stone Design

While not for the high-end graphics market, Stone Studio is a robust set of apps that takes some getting used to but is worth the effort ... read more at MacAddict

Office 2001 - Microsoft

An ever-increasing feature bloat, making each new version larger and more cumbersome, has afflicted Office's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications for years - until now ... read more at MacAddict

AppleWorks 6 - Apple

Bundled with every iMac and iBook, it's the first real productivity application many of us ever used. Unfortunately, AppleWorks 6 is very much a mixed bag ... read more at MacAddict

RagTime 5 - B & E Software

If you want a serious word processor and spreadsheet, the backbone of every office, the choice seems pretty limited. AppleWorks is useful but too lightweight for heavy use, so most people opt for Microsoft Word and Excel. But there is an alternative. RagTime, which calls itself a business publishing solution, has reached version 5.0.1 and now offers a credible alternative for high-end offices ... read more at MacUser UK

RagTime 4.2

RagTime's distributor describes the program as the "Swiss Army Knife of office applications" with good reason. RagTime incorporates features typically found in page-layout, word-processing, spreadsheet, and illustration applications ... read more at Macworld

Microsoft Office '98

Microsoft Word is no longer the application you know and loathe. After the disastrous release of Word 6.0 (which many considered a downgrade), Microsoft gathered up all the hate mail, took note of what went wrong, and fixed it ... read more at MacAddict

Claris (Now Apple) Works Office 5.0 - Apple

This one product gives you a capable word processor, database and spreadsheet programs, plus some simple paint, draw, and telecommunications capabilities ... read more at MacAddict

Claris Works for Kids

A simplified interface gives kids Art Pads for painting and drawing, Writing Pads for word processing, Graphing Pads for spreadsheets, and List Pads for databases. ... read more at Macworld