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Article: Ashampoo Office 2008.(Product/service evaluation)
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- Computer Act!ve
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- September 18, 2008
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Byline: Andrew Zarkesh
Ashampoo Office 2008
Cheap but effective alternative to Microsoft Office
We recently looked at Corel's Wordperfect Office X4 (issue 274), one of the many challengers to Microsoft Office's crown. Its downfall was its poor performance when opening heavily formatted Microsoft Word documents, as well as its high price. Ashampoo Office 2008 is not only fairly priced at [pounds sterling]40, it also made light work of opening the same complex Word document that stumped Corel's [pounds sterling]280 suite.
Occupying just 50MB of hard disk space and requiring only 64MB of memory to run, Ashampoo Office is extremely compact ...