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Rivals take aim at Microsoft Office

IBM on Tuesday announced the release of Lotus Symphony, a suite of free desktop applications based on the OpenOffice.org open-source product.

The computing giant, which has been challenging Microsoft’s desktop dominance for years, said that Lotus Symphony is a standards-based alternative to Microsoft’s proprietary Office.

Separately, on Monday afternoon, Yahoo said that it paid $350m (£174m) to acquire Zimbra, a start-up that developed a web-based email and collaboration package comparable with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.

Meanwhile, Google on Monday introduced Google Presentations, an online version of Microsoft’s PowerPoint presentation application that complements Google’s web-hosted document editor and spreadsheet.

source: ZDNET


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