Posted: Thu Dec 16, 04 11:55 am Post subject: Which free software for working from home?
I've been given permission, subject to providing myself with suitable conditions, to work from home one day a week.
I'll need...
broadband with suitable security stuff - tick
computer - have basic one, looking at a new, cheap Dell - almost tick
MS office compatible office suite (so I can transfer files - have been recommended Open Office
email software - someone has suggested Thunderbird
Does anyone have experience of Thunderbird and Open Office? Open Office is the recommendation of our office techie so I'm pretty happy with that, but Thunderbird has just been suggested to me by our finance director, who is going to install Firefox on my work PC for me.
If my working from home is successful I might turn my experiences in to a beginners guide as home-working is "very DS" .
I use Outlook and MS Office cos that's what we use at work. Never tried anything else for my mail although there are allegedly many better free options. I'm always open to suggestions though.
bagpuss
Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 10507 Location: cambridge
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 04 12:17 pm Post subject:
I use the mail client which comes with the complete mozilla install at work and if that is anything to go by thunderbird should be fine
I also really like firefox which we use as home (I use straight mozilla at work) and really like tabbed browsing which makes like much easier
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