[Syberyenta]

I used a product called Lotus Symphony for DOS years and years ago. They must be re-using the copyrighted name

I found Open Office to be slow: what do you guys think?

MS Office 2007 has a new file format, incompatible with even previous Office programs (but you can choose to work in the ‘old’ format) And they removed the menus in favor of a Ribbon, which my fingers and I find quite distressing.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I used a product called Lotus Symphony for DOS years and years ago. They must be re-using the copyrighted name"

IBM bought Lotus, which had, by that time, come out with a Windows version. How much of that code IBM is using???

"I found Open Office to be slow: what do you guys think?"

Yeah, it is, but "Moores Law" will take care of that. I'm running Office 2003, and when I have to replace that, I'll switch to "Open Office".

[Petronski]

If you turn off the Java virtual machine in Open Office, you lose a few features (macros, I think), but the software speeds up quite nicely.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“I used a product called Lotus Symphony for DOS...”

As you know, Lotus Symphony was an integrated product that had word processing, spreadsheet etc in its package and the spreadsheet was similar to Lotus 1,2,3. It was a great program, and it was 1983 or so when I started using it. It even ran from 5 1/4” floppy’s. I used it first on an early IBM PC that had two 5 1/4” drives, but no harddrive.

I will take a look at this new Lotus Symphony.