June 18th, 2008
Review: Symphony Sings As Office Clone
CRN has published a great article, Review: Symphony Sings As Office Clone
"Lotus Symphony has a slicker interface, uncluttered menus, and a number of user accessibility options that make it a more attractive option than Open Office."
"Instead of opening up three different programs to look at Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, they can all be mixed and matched in one single window. It's a nice touch, considering how ubiquitous tabs have become in Web browsers, and makes the suite much more memory efficient and simple to use."
"IBM has improved the OpenOffice.org code to make Lotus Symphony more accessible to screen readers for visually disabled users. Keyboard shortcuts are also more systematic and useful under Symphony than for OpenOffice."
"The sidebar never gets crowded, unlike the oft-maligned ribbon in Office 2007."
"The Test Center found Symphony a snap to use, and switching to Symphony after years of using Microsoft Office was painless. While Open Office was a nice alternative, Symphony looks and works much more elegantly while keeping the free price tag."
