You don't need Microsoft Office to be effective...

If you travel a lot, need to work on a collaborative project, or are trying to live a "paper-free" life, then here are two websites for you!

Use these sites to create faux Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents...

http://docs.google.com - you can share documents with other people, track editting, and even save the documents to your desktop as the appropriate Microsoft file. It's magic!

and

http://www.zoho.com/

Zoho offers an even broader array of products, including web conferencing and a planner function.

Yeah for online productivity!