InfoWorld reports: "IBM is to offer the world a free word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program in yet another bid to upset the dominance of Microsoft's Office suite. ... IBM says it will ...

Joining Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and others, IBM plans to offer a cloud-based office suite, the company announced on Monday. The company is in the process of developing a hosted version of its Lotus ...

IBM Lotus Symphony is one of the newer free office productivity suites out there, although the Lotus name itself has a long pedigree. Like OpenOffice.org--a free productivity suite fostered by Sun ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Last week, IBM went head to head against Microsoft as well as well other companies providing office ...

Lotus Symphony acts much like Microsoft Office, which is good if you are looking for something to replace Office at a fraction of the cost (free!). It's not so good if you are looking for something ...

IBM/Lotus took another stab at Microsoft Office, releasing a beta 2 version of Symphony 3.0, its free suite of productivity applications. Released Thursday, the beta is the first version of Symphony ...

Early user reviews of IBM’s new Lotus Symphony office software suite are unlikely to be music to IBM’s ears. While testers praised Symphony’s slick interface, they also said the software, which is ...

IBM’s Symphony suite provides document, spreadsheet and presentations applications with support for Open Document format company has been championing. A week after formally joining the effort to ...

International Business Machines is launching a software package called Symphony that includes a word processor to rival Word, a spreadsheet to go up against Excel and business-presentation software as ...

IBM gunning for Microsoft? Man, that takes me back. The company just announced IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of software tools for creating and sharing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Sound ...

While Google Apps may not be a knockout threat to Microsoft’s enterprise business this year, a cloud apps battle continues to brew between the two companies. Google and Microsoft are the forerunners ...