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IBM Shift from Microsoft Office to Lotus Symphony

Here is a bad news for Microsoft users. A judge in a Texas court has given Microsoft 60 days to comply with an order to stop selling Word products in their existing state as the result of a patent infringement suit filed by i4i. According to the injunction, Microsoft is forbidden from selling Word products that let people create XML documents, which both the 2003 and 2007 versions let you do.

IBM has announced to shift to its 15-month-old Lotus Symphony suite of productivity tools, emphasizing it indeed offers an alternative to Microsoft Office.
The Court order to remove Microsoft office from shelves has left no other option to move on to Symphony, Google Docs or OpenOffice.