Best free word processors?
Given my love of lists and my near-obsessive interest in good, basic word processing software, it was great to see this list of 10 free minimalist word processors from Web Worker Daily. The list, not surprisingly, is heavy on web-based tools like Google Docs and Zoho Writer, though it also mentions a few of my desktop faves, including DarkRoom and Writer. WWD even turned up one I hadn’t tried before, RoughDraft, which is a fairly decent outliner/notebook tool. Unfortunately, they left out one of my all-time favorites: Microsoft Word 5.5 for DOS. Which I suppose shouldn’t be surprising; though Microsoft continues to make this chestnut freely available, I seem to be waging a solitary quest to have it added to the pantheon of classic word processors. And, yes, it remains a pale shadow of its late, lamented competitor, WordPerfect 5.1. Now a free version of that would indeed be one for the lists.
