除了傳統(tǒng)的OpenOffice、國產(chǎn)的WPS、互聯(lián)網(wǎng)巨無霸Google推出的Google Apps，以及Sun和Google Pack聯(lián)合推出的StarOffice，最近IBM也不再甘做此領(lǐng)域的旁觀者，推出了自己的免費辦公軟件IBM Lotus Symphony。Symphony包括文字處理、電子表格和演示幻燈片共3種工具，基于Open Document Format(ODF)文檔格式，可以另存為MS Offie文檔或輸出為PDF。這3種工具已包含在IBM Lotus 8套件中。
What's new in IBM Lotus 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.
Usability enhancements:
· In presentations, page layout is more visible by locating the Properties sidebar in the right panel.
· Provided better animation effects interoperability with Microsoft PowerPoint on font-relative effects, fade-exit effects, and multiple motion paths; and enabled the animation play at automatic page transitions.
· Provided an automatic cursor in presentation screen shows as a default option.
· Presentation pages can be deleted continuously without any prompt.
· Provided new graphic bullets and clip art.
· Provided enhanced color pallette in color picker.
· Enhancements in live text.
· Enabled support that allows you to open a file by dragging and dropping a file to the home page or the New.
· A continuous improvement in mail merge in documents.
· Default font is changed to Arial in presentations and documents.
· Enlarged the pull-down list length upper limit to 20 items to make more options visible.
· Enabled Ctrl+left Shift and Ctrl+right Shift hotkey support to switch BIDI layout.
· Enhanced toolbar and main menu usability.
Programmability enhancements:
· Provided rich Lotus Symphony document model APIs for Spreadsheets and Documents.
Online help enhancements:
· Enhanced help content for spreadsheets, common, and preferences topics.
· Added drag-to-install function in the Plug-ins section.
· Added support for multiple downloads and enabled Atom feeds for clip art and templates in the Gallery section.
· Expanded search function for the Forum.
· Rotated announcements on the Home page.
· Key Bug Fixes
· Defects reported on the Symphony Forum
· A file which has been opened in other editors should be read-only when opened in Symphony.
· Symphony Document often crashes when searching with words containing wild cards.
· Measurement units in the sidebar are inconsistent with those in the property window.
· SUMPRODUCT function doesn't work as in Microsoft Excel.
· INDIRECT function returns wrong value in Spreadsheet.
· Charts should end with the last valid data entries in the range, rather than dropping down to zero for blank cells.
· Items in the form Listbox get lost after saving.
· Animations created by Symphony can not be recognized by OpenOffice.org.
· For files in RTF/DOC/ODT format, pages in Landscape are printed out in Portrait.
· Encrypted document can't be opened even with the correct password in Turkey OS.
· Symphony fails to print a document with both Portrait and Landscape pages.
· The email hyperlink can not redirect to the mail system.
· Symphony can't save https protocol hyperlink.
· The document created in WordPro and saved as Microsoft Binary File Format cannot be opened by Symphony.