openoffice.org is a great free alternative to ms office. it is completely compatible withe everything but ms publisher
Yes they are
MS DOS is an acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System. MS Office is an acronym for Microsoft Office which is a word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation application.
Absolutely - I have both programs on my computer and Open Office will happily open MS Works files.
Yes, Ms office 2003 is backward compatible with MS Office 2000. But if you are an advance user who programs in MS Office 2003. than there is certain part of code written in Ms office 2003 does not work in 2000. That's very minimal.
Yes you can open MS Office 2000 documents with OpenOffice and it's cousins LibreOffice (my favorite just now) ApacheOffice (havn't tried it yet but might soon). You can save OpenOffice documents in MS Office 2000 formats too.
The short answer is 'No'. There is no need to download compatibility pack for 2007 office system if you are running MS office 2007. Compatibility pack is required; if you want to run higher version MS office program on lower version MS Office program.For Example:Want to run MS Office 2007 program on MS Office 2003: Compatibility Pack is Required.Want to run MS Office 2003 Program on MS Office 2007: NO compatibility pack required.
Not sure about the nature of the reports: # A report as a text document that is created using OpenOffice.org Writer can be saved in various MS Office formats and therefore be read by MS Word. # A report that is a form of an OpenOffice.org Base database? I'm not sure if that can be saved in an MS Access compatible format.
Yes even though Windows 7 is newer.
Yes.but Microsoft Office 2007 is not
Office 2007 will run on Windows7 but some changes made and released in Office 2010 take better advantage of the Windows7 interface.
Legally you can not, although the easiest way to do this is to re-install your operating system and all programs (quite a bit of work just for a demo). There are open source (aka free and safe) alternatives which are compatible with MS Office, such as OpenOffice.
MS-DOS was initially released in 1981 for the Intel 8086 and 8088 based processors. There are no software requirements for MS-DOS as it is a stand-alone operating system. MS-DOS is compatible with x86 systems.