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Re:IBM forcing all employees to stop using MS Office by DanielStraight on Friday September 18, 2009 @01:08PM (#830640)
I tried to download Symphony. Had to go through like 20 screens and then couldn't even download it because I had to sign up to use HTTP rather than their download manager which couldn't get through my proxy. Sigh. Why do companies think adding steps to a user interface flow is a good thing?
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Re:IBM forcing all employees to stop using MS Office by coliveira on Friday September 18, 2009 @01:20PM (#830662)
Symphony is just a shell around Open Office, with integration to IBM tools (such as notes). I don't think is really useful for "normal" people, it is better just getting OO itself. So, the website it targeted to companies, not to individual users.
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Re:IBM forcing all employees to stop using MS Office by DanielStraight on Friday September 18, 2009 @01:35PM (#830695)
Ah. Now it somewhat makes sense. It's still a heck of a lot of clicking.
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