ADOBE SOFTWARE DUPE MAKER TAKES ON MICROSOFT OFFICE, RELEASING FREE VERSIONS OF WORD, POWERPOINT, AND EXCEL

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A developer who used AI to recreate Adobe's creative apps in Rust as free, open-source tools is now taking on Microsoft Office. WordCraft, DeckCraft, and GridCraft arrive as free stand-ins for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel under the ArtCraft brand. Some subreddits removed posts over cybersecurity and ethics concerns about AI-generated code. Supporters frame the apps as a protest against Adobe's subscription tactics.