Do you know, you can save money and your time by slecting right software and cloud computing.
Lets start, First if you are using MS Office suite, try OpenOffice suite. It's a good alternative to expensive MS Office.
For email client use thinderbird against Outlook.
You may also try all in one Spicebird.
Search all these on google.com, download.com
Second step toward use of cloud computing.
The term cloud computing: The concept incorporates infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) as well as other recent technology trends that have the common theme of reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users. Cloud computing services usually provide common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers.
Use list of services:
Peer-to-peer / volunteer computing (Bittorrent, Skype)
Web application (Facebook, orkut)
Software as a service (Google Apps, SAP and Salesforce)
Software plus services (Microsoft Online Services, zoho)
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