Just as background, here's some more info about the suite (lifted from a press release, mind). Oh and in case you were wondering - no, we're not on a little earner, here - I wrote the story simply because the price looked to be very good and I found out that it was going up today.
Features
ThinkFree Office3 Write - full-featured word processor software:
· Format text, bullets, line spacing and date format
· Insert tables, specify table size and background colour
· Add images and clipart
· Real time spell check and auto correction tools
· Full-featured drawing modules
· HTML export and XML (WordML) support
· Built in PDF creation
· Easy-to-use, similar user-interface to Microsoft Office
· Seamlessly opens, edits and saves directly as a Microsoft Word compatible .doc format
ThinkFree Office3 Calc - powerful spreadsheet software:
· Track data and generate reports and graphs
· Store, organize, manipulate and present data of all types
· Enter or import data from other popular programs
· Customize font and background color
· Tackle complex calculations with over 300 built-in formulas
· Choose from 40 different graph types
· Powerful chart and drawing modules
· HTML export, and XML (SpreadsheetML) support
· Built in PDF creation
· Easy-to-use and similar user interface to Microsoft Office
· Seamlessly opens, edits and saves directly into the Microsoft Excel compatible .xls format
ThinkFree Office3 Show - feature-rich presentation graphics software:
· Create a variety of presentations with text, images, clipart, charts, graphs and animated effects
· Built-in templates available or create your own slide master
· Enhance presentations with fonts, bullets, colours, logos and clipart images
· 140 different drawing tools to create lines, shapes and flowcharts
· Re-organise slide order with drag and drop tools
· Full-featured drawing module
· Built in PDF creation
· Easy-to-use, similar user interface to Microsoft Office
· Seamlessly opens, edits and saves directly as a Microsoft PowerPoint compatible .ppt format
Benefits of ownership:
· Low cost, complete ‘Office’ solution, MSRP £34.99p inc VAT
· Ideal for home, education or small-business as an “Office” complement and / or alternative
· Best document viewing compatibility with Microsoft Office
· Best round-trip compatibility with Microsoft Office
· Multi-platform support
· Windows compatible fonts bundled for Linux and Mac users providing maximum cross platform compatibility
· Reduces company’s / organisation’s Total Cost of Ownership
· Affordable per-user license
· When hosted on a corporate intranet server, the software is launched from the server to the user's desktop via a Web browser, thus eliminating the cost involved with installing and maintaining software on individual desktops
· Small footprint: complete suite of applications less than 30 MB, total installed files including clip arts and Java around 110 MB
· Built-in multi-lingual support for English (US/AU/UK) / French / German / Italian / Icelandic / Portuguese (Brazilian) / Spanish / Turkish / Chinese (Simplified /Traditional) / Korean/ Japanese / Korean
System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP, Mac OS X 10.4, Linux Fedora Core 3, Recommended
Hardware: Pentium IV, Macintosh G4/G5, or equivalent with 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended) and minimum 200 MB free HDD space.