Lotus Symphony - Another Office Suite

You can't afford to buy Microsoft Office suite and don't trust open source Open Office than how about IBM Lotus Symphony. Made by well known company, IBM, and it is free. If you are old as I am, you probably heard of Lotus office suite, it was actually out before Microsoft Office. Lotus is not as attractive as Microsoft Office but it does its job very well and it is compatible with Microsoft Office. So, another free choice for office product for your kids and home use, don't you just love these free stuff.

Excerpt from http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/help.nsf/ReleaseNotes#latest

What's New in Symphony 1.3?

Functional enhancements:
Enabled Microsoft® Office 2007 files import support.
Significant enhancements in DataPilot in spreadsheets, including show/hide field items panel, drill down to details, DataPilot cache support, and default styles.
Numbering enhancement in documents to improve interoperability with Microsoft Word.
Enabled Microsoft Office and IBM Lotus SmartSuite® password protection support for spreadsheets.
Enabled network URI access and hyperlink support that allows you to create network connection hyperlinks for URI protocols including FTP, MailTo, and SMB.
Enabled envelope support which allows you to create an envelope, set envelope properties, and set printing options.
Enabled Widgets Catalog server support.
Improved print performance.
Enabled Sumproduct's ForceArray formula support in spreadsheets.
Significant start-up performance improvement on Mac OS X.