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Contents 
Introduction
Testing Compatability
Evermore Integrated Office
Lotus SmartSuite
Microsoft Office
StarOffice/OpenOffice
WordPerfect Office
Specifications
Final words
Editor's choice
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With over 90 percent market share (in monetary terms), comparisons are always going to be made with MS Office. With its impressive array of tools and huge market share, MS Office is the natural benchmark application. Thus, it is also essential for competitors to be able to deal with MS files -- and they do with more or less success. As long as this situation remains, Microsoft sees little reason to support filters for export to other brands, but there is a limited capacity to export to some Corel and Lotus formats.
Microsoft Office is also the most expensive at AU$899 for the professional version. But it is not all that more expensive than Evermore or Corel when the extra features are considered. Microsoft includes Outlook (organiser and e-mail client) in the package, which makes it almost unique in terms of package breadth of use. Lotus is closest in this regard.
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Not a bad balanced review. What about all the advanced features like IRM, shared workspace with SharePoint Services, Integration with backend systems etc This is the true differentiation for users who want to do more than change fonts and add italics to a document. Word processing is hard to differntiate, but you ask a very advanced spreadsheet user what really works for them.