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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Journal

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Windows Journal is a note-taking application that allows users to create and organize handwritten notes and drawings

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Loop

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Microsoft Loop is an online collaborative workspace helps users gather, organize, and build notes, ideas, and projects.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to MSN Weather

May 8, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

MSN Weather gets you the very latest weather forecast, including temperature, humidity, precipitation for your location. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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xemu emulates the original Microsoft Xbox game console

April 9, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, GUI

xemu emulates the original Microsoft Xbox game console. Play your original Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Media Player

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Windows Media Player is a video and audio player. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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Uno Calculator – port of Windows calculator

January 15, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Uno Calculator is a port of the open source Windows Calculato. It provides standard, scientific, and programmer calculator functionality.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Calendar

December 23, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Microsoft Calendar is a personal calendar application which offers synchronization with various calendar services. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Clipchamp

November 6, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

Clipchamp is non-linear editing software that allows users to import, edit, and export audiovisual material in an Internet browser window.

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Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

October 2, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Textual Paint is a TUI (Text User Interface) image editor, inspired by MS Paint.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint

July 19, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful slide show presentation program. This is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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