Business/Word Processing
open source
Notepad2
Notepad2 is another small, fast notepad replacement with some unusual features. It includes zoom, rectangular selection, regular expressions, and more.
open source
Scribus
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
freeware
Adobe Reader Lite
Adobe Reader Lite is a bloat-free version of the PDF viewer, Adobe Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free, and freely distributable, software that lets you view and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
freeware
EditPad Lite
EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.
freeware
Nitro PDF Reader
Nitro PDF Reader lets you create PDF files, comment and review, save PDF forms, extract text and images, type text directly onto the page, and more. Start working with PDF files the way you always wanted.
freeware
GetDiz
GetDiz is a program used to view DIZ and NFO files that are typically found in ZIP files.
freeware
Microsoft Office Suite 2007
The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 delivers important customer-requested stability and performance improvements, while incorporating further enhancements to user security. This service pack also includes all of the updates released for the 2007 Office suite prior to December of 2007. You can get a more complete description of SP1, including a list of issues that were fixed, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 936982: Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1.
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freeware
TED Notepad
TED Notepad is a growing freeware text editor, fertile in innovative features, text-processing functions and other advanced tools. All of them on hotkeys; all designed for quick advanced editing and text cold-working. This light-weight portable notepad replacement fits on any USB flash disk and loads instantly with no installation required. Daily writing of notes, lists, scripts or even code can get even easier than you thought.
open source
AkelPad
AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.
freeware
Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.
freeware
EditPad Lite
EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.
open source
Go-OO
Go-OO is a fork of OpenOffice that has impressive features which should be in the official OpenOffice, but for some reason or another aren't, such as support for OpenXML, better Microsoft Binary support, Excel VBA macros, Visio diagrams and Word Perfect Graphics support. It also boasts significantly better start times -- at least on our poorly equipped test machine.
open source
Sumatra PDF Optimized Builds
Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF reader for Windows. Portable out of the box. Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. It's small and starts up very fast. It's designed for portable use: only one file so you can run it from external USB drive. Doesn't write to registry.
open source
OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. It establishes the necessary facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer community.
freeware
PDF-XChange Viewer
PDF-XChange Viewer lets you view PDF files on your computer or online just like other PDF readers can, but with "Typewriter Mode", you can type directly on any PDF page! Now you can fill out forms and add text to PDF documents that you would normally have to print out before you could write on them.
freeware
SciTE
SciTE is an open scorce text editor that can be both used as an editor of plain text and for an editor for programmming language. Has features like method folds, change languages and many other tools to help you edit your text better.
freeware
Jarte
Jarte is a compact word processor and WordPad replacement with a unique, easy-to-use interface. Features include the ability to edit Microsoft Word documents, OLE support (the ability to insert pictures and sounds), tabbed document access, a quality spelling checker, page breaks, print previewing, visual header and footer designer, clip history, a reference bar, multilevel undo and redo functionality, and single-click bookmarking. A detailed help file is included.
commercial demo
SoftMaker Office
SoftMaker Office contains a TextMaker (Word), Presentation (Powerpoint), PlanMaker (excel spreadsheets), and BasicMaker (Macro writer). All this in under a size of 45 Megabytes so it can load in an instant. It even comes with a quickstarter, but it may not be needed with the incredible speed of SoftMaker Office. Even with its amazing speeds it still leaves you with the ability to drag and drop arrange icons for a userfriendly interface. If loss of files has you worried about this wonderful product then...
open source
AbiWord
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc. It is designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.
open source
OpenOffice.org Portable
OpenOffice.org Portable is a fully-functional package of OpenOffice.org optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow you to launch it from the directory of your choice. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more.