which is the best shreware/freeware program on the internet???

The best shareware i ever had is Yahoo messenger u know voice chat quality is superb and while on broadband super cam is perfect so i think a free utility that can make communication pretty is a free ware that rocks.

I think for me it is better to find out a freeware for our need of our computing activity, because if we use the freeware software we don't need to allocate a budget to buy software, just visit the website who have the freeware and download it, it is different if we use a shareware, after a period of time we cannot use the software anymore, so if we want to continue use the software we must buy it.

I would say its Windows Live Messenger (formally MSN messenger). Most people i know have it installed on their pc and its the most used instant messaging program on the internet today.

both of them

I'd say OpenOffice... complete Office Suite with Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Database, Presentation, Graphics Drawing package and Mathematical equation editor... can export to MS Office formats, PDF, SWF...