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Just hours after Google adds to its Docs and Spreadsheets by unveiling for use its new Presentation software, IBM throws its hat in the ring by announcing a direct head-to-head software suite to Microsoft Office software.

What IBM have done is to take a version of OpenOffice and to dub it Lotus Symphony (an old name used by Lotus some 20 years ago but stopped using it when its software went out of fashion).

Today you can download a copy of this new office suite from IBM. So now we have Microsoft, IBM, OpenOffice, and Google all vying for businesses use of their version of an office suite.

Which will you use? For me it is the fully hosted office offered by Google. All the others you need to install software something foreign to the way I work.

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