Say Goodbye to MS Office

Posted At : September 19, 2007 10:48 PM | Posted By : Simon Horwith
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Earlier today I installed IBM Lotus Symphony and spent a little time playing with the suite today. It's really quite nice. If you haven't heard about Symphony yet, in a nutshell it is a completely free office suite developed by IBM (built on eclipse). The components are document, spreadsheet, and presentation applications (basically alternatives for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). The application interfaces are simple and to the point, there's support for many file formats including PDF, Microsoft document, and the Open Document formats (non-proprietary) for each document type. I've been a fan of Open Office for quite some time now, but I've been a fan of IBM for longer, and Symphony appears to be a bit cleaner and nicer to use than Open Office so far.

Symphony is in beta and I haven't been using it for a really long time so I don't recommend blindly uninstalling whatever office suite you already have just yet, but I definitely recommend downloading it from http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa and giving it a shot. Hey, it's free... what do you have to lose?

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Yes a replacement for word, excel and powerpoint are nice, but the real reason people use ms office is because of outlook and because outlook is the only thing that hooks up properly into exchange. if you want people to kiss office goodbye, someone will have to come up with something that integrates with exchange as seemless as outlook does.

# Posted By tony petruzzi | 9/20/07 2:26 PM

very true, Tony. I often take for granted that as a die hard Thunderbird user, I may be in the minority.

# Posted By Simon Horwith | 9/20/07 2:31 PM

Outlook comes with a pretty good built in editor if you don't have Word installed.

# Posted By Randy Edmunds | 9/20/07 5:31 PM

Built on Eclipse...but no OSx version. :(

# Posted By Ken Wilson | 9/21/07 9:45 AM

it's requirements say "US English locale", which kind of puts a damper on it. have you tried it w/non-english text, locales?

# Posted By PaulH | 9/26/07 10:35 PM

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