Lotus Symphony 1.3 as an alternative to Microsoft Office 2007

IBM has released a new version of the Lotus Symphony package. It allows you to open Microsoft Office 2007 documents. Businesses from around the world can save millions of dollars if they refuse to use Office 2007 and switch to Lotus Symphony, which is absolutely free. Learn more about the product and testing capabilities ...


IBM has announced the release of a new version of the package for working with documents - Lotus Symphony 1.3. It includes the editor of text documents Lotus Symphony Documents, the editor of tables Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and the editor of presentations Lotus Symphony Presentations.

The main innovation is the ability to import documents saved in Microsoft Office 2007 formats. This initiative will help save millions of dollars to many large enterprises that are looking for ways to alleviate the financial burden in the current economic downturn. The ability to import Microsoft Office 2007 files into Symphony means that Microsoft Office customers can save on license purchases by going to the Symphony platform while retaining the ability to access their files. Saving can and ordinary users. For example, the cost of a license for Office 2007 for home use is about 2.5 thousand rubles.
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Along with support for Office 2007 formats, Lotus Symphony has enhanced the ability to automatically generate a standard letter, the function of printing names, addresses, postal codes and other details on mail envelopes. There were new effects for the design of presentations, a new clipart appeared, the ability to insert information in the documents, broadcast in real time (Live Text) was added. The new version of Lotus Symphony allows you to connect additional software modules through a standard “drag and drop” operation, extending the use of Symphony to other business applications. Finally, the package supports export to PDF and ODF formats. For more information, see the Lotus Symphony 1.3 demo video .

You can download and test Lotus Symphony 1.3 for free at IBM .
Please note that the packet size is about 200 MB. The package supports the following operating systems: Windows, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Mac OS X and Ubuntu. Available, including in Russian.