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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft SharePoint

June 9, 2023 Steve Emms Software

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that’s often used as a document management and storage system. We recommend the best open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Calculator

May 19, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Software

Microsoft Calculator app lets you perform basic arithmetic and scientific calculations. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Terminal

April 28, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Windows Terminal is billed as “a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application”. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Old Photo Restoration

March 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Scientific

Old Photo Restoration is an academic project that lets you restore old photos. This software uses PyTorch and is written in Python.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Planner

November 11, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Microsoft Planner is a planning application for creating Kanban boards. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Whiteboard

September 16, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform, intelligent canvas to create, and collaborate via the cloud. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Snipping Tool

August 17, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software, Utilities

Snipping Tool is a screenshot utility. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Exchange Server

July 1, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server. It is proprietary software that’s not available for Linux. We recommend the following free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio

June 24, 2022 Steve Emms Programming, Software

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Skype

June 6, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

Skype provides VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Publisher

November 10, 2021 Steve Emms Office, Software

Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft. Its focus is placed on page layout and design rather than text composition and proofing. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft OneDrive

September 29, 2021 Steve Emms Internet

Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) is a file hosting service and synchronization service operated by Microsoft as part of its web version of Office. We recommend open source alternatives.

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Best Free Alternatives to Microsoft Bing

September 22, 2021 Steve Emms Internet

We examine the best free alternatives to Microsoft Bing, a a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Project

September 8, 2021 Steve Emms Office, Productivity, Software

Microsoft Project is project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. Here’s our recommended free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft OneNote

September 1, 2021 Steve Emms Productivity, Software

Microsoft OneNote is available as part of the Microsoft Office suite. Here’s our recommended free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft GitHub

August 25, 2021 Steve Emms Programming, Software

This series looks at the best free and open source alternatives to products and services offered by Microsoft. We launch the series with GitHub.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft’s Products and Services

August 20, 2021 Steve Emms Software

This series looks at the best free and open source alternatives to products and services offered by Microsoft.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

A Week with Windows 11: Through the Looking-Glass

August 16, 2021 Lee Walker Blog

Lee Walker experiments with a beta of Windows 11 for a week, departing from his favourite Linux distros. How did he fare?

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Remote Desktop - Android

Best Free Android Apps: Remote Desktop – connect to a remote PC

January 30, 2021 Eilidih Parris Android, Reviews, Software

Use the Remote Desktop client for Android to work with Windows apps and desktops directly from your Android device.

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A Bright Future with GitHub? Microsoft muscles in

June 5, 2018 Steve Emms Annoucements

GitLab reported that 13,000 projects moved from GitHub to GitLab on the day of Microsoft’s acquisition announcement. That’s, of course, a small drop in the ocean compared to the 80 million projects currently hosted on GitHub.

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