I recently learned about an open-source office software package that is absolutely FREE to download and use for life. It is perfectly compatible with the most popular office applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It is released under the LGPL license and can be downloaded and used entirely free for life. This means you may use it for any purpose at home, at work, in schools, etc. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees, and anyone you like! It is suitable for complete beginners, but if you have used any other office software, you’ll really enjoy the many familiar features you are already used to. You can now create, open, and edit documents that you used to only be able to work with if you owned expensive office software. For more info and to download, go here: http://www.openoffice.org/
VERY IMPORTANT: There have been recent reports of a potential Adobe Flash Player exploit in the wild. Anyone with a Flash Player version lower than 9.0.124.0 should download and install the latest Flash Player update. If you’re not sure which version you have, visit this page at Adobe’s website, and it will tell you: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/
From what I understand, you can become a victim to this exploit if you have an unpatched version of Adobe Flash Player and download an exploited flash file, open an email containing a flash movie, share a flash file via instant messaging, or visit a website that just has an exploited flash movie on it (which is almost impossible to avoid), regardless of which browser you are using or which operating system you are running.
More information about this can be found at the following links:
http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/05/potential_flash_player_issue_u_1.html
http://www.symantec.com/norton/security_response/browsewebsafely.jsp
The update can be downloaded from Adobe’s website here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
