Office 2007 Ultimate for £39/$60

[ORAC]

Those who are students, or who access to a student, if you know what I mean. You can get a full copy of Office 2007 Ultimate for £38.95 in the UK or $59.95 in the USA.

Includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, Groove, OneNote, and InfoPath.

Normal price is $600/£500.

[rossym]

That's great! Shame it doesn't apply to school students

[seacue]

Public libraries and legitimate 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations in the USA and Canadian equivalents can get Office Pro Plus 2007 for $20. A wide range of Microsoft, Symantec and other software is available at similar prices.

[FlyerFoto]

That's great! Shame it doesn't apply to school students

Found that out a few years ago - f.e. students only, which is great when the kids need it for school!

[Mac the Knife]

Why buy expensive malware?

NEW YORK, NY - 18 Sep 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Beginning today at www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony, business, academic, governmental and consumer users alike can download this enterprise-grade office software, which is the same tool inside some of IBM's most popular collaboration products, such as the recently released Lotus Notes 8. In addition, these tools can be used to seamlessly extend a business process or custom application to create dynamic composite applications.

There are three core applications that make up the Lotus Symphony tools: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations. These intuitive software tools, which support Windows and Linux desktops, are designed to handle the majority of office productivity tasks that workers typically perform. Lotus Symphony supports multiple file formats including Microsoft Office and Open Document Format (ODF), and also can output content in PDF format.



Mac

[Saab Dastard]

IBM Lotus Symphony

So what's the relationship to IBM Lotus Smartsuite? That contains the WordPro / Amipro, Lotus 123 and Freelance graphics. Smartsuite is still going, I believe.

Way back 15 years ago that was a much better office suite than MS Word - Excel - Powerpoint.

SD

[Bushfiva]

So what's the relationship to IBM Lotus Smartsuite?

No direct relationship, other than the ability to open Smartsuite formats. The Symphony name has been resurrected to refer to its products based on the openoffice.org codebase. It's still a beta right now, unless things changed in the last day or two.

[Earl]

The Chinese have already hacked this office 2007, costs 4 USD, in the normal places all across Asia and KSA to include Turkey.
Not supporting pirated software in any way, but 600 usd, give me a break.
I am sure that everyone would have paid 100 usd for the same thing, that would have been a fair price and probably would have sold more.
M/S is its own worst enemy.

[Mac the Knife]

Functionality is similar but the underlying codebase is different. IBM Lotus Symphony is based on the StarOffice/OpenOffice codebase. SmartSuite isn't.

"IBM Lotus Symphony is an set of applications comprising:
* IBM Lotus Symphony Documents, a word processor
* IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, a spreadsheet
* IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations, a presentation program

It supports the OpenDocument format (ODF), as well as Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite formats, and it can export Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Lotus Symphony is based on Eclipse Rich Client Platform for its shell and OpenOffice.org for the core office suite code. It shares code with the productivity tools built into IBM Lotus Notes version 8."

"Lotus SmartSuite is an office productivity suite that includes Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Approach, Lotus FastSite, Lotus Freelance Graphics, Lotus Organizer, Lotus SmartCenter, and Lotus Word Pro."

I've downloaded Lotus Symphony - will install it and report back.

[Saab Dastard]

Thanks Mac.

SD