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• Gunnar Almås said on Feb 4, 2010 11:41 AM:

  If you want people to test software, then you must provide easy links to it. Where is it ?????
  

• JL said on Feb 4, 2010 12:00 PM:

  Where is the download link???
  

• Tony in London said on Feb 4, 2010 12:08 PM:

  It's buried away here
  
  http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/SymphonyBetaHome.nsf/home
  

• River Bend Jim said on Feb 4, 2010 3:54 PM:

  Thanks for the link. It worked. But still, the key is to click the link on the product name of the version you pick. I kept pushing buttons to no avail.
  

• Kuzyn JayJay said on Feb 4, 2010 10:06 PM:

  Well done!
  

• Han Rotteveel livostan@gmail.com said on Feb 5, 2010 10:21 AM:

  Same as most above. Try to download symphony3 but nothing happens.
  

• Udo said on Feb 5, 2010 12:17 PM:

  I like the concept: basic/frequent properties in the sidebar (the sidebar looks great!) and click on „more“ opens an advanced properties dialog box. But I don't like the „OK“-Button in the advanced properties dialog box. It would be easy to use, if there is an „Apply“-Button in the advanced properties dialog boxes. The InfoBox in Lotus WordPro (Lotus Smartsuite) has no „OK“-Button. The use of the „OK“-Button in a dialog box should be a thing of the past.
  

• ernest33 said on Feb 5, 2010 6:46 PM:

  Great work here :-)
  
  I opened an excel file and all macro are working...Bravo :-)
  
  And one more bravo for the appearance (skin) it's really nice ;-)
  
  Amicalement!
  

• Christian in Virginia said on Feb 6, 2010 7:03 PM:

  It is hard to believe this is a beta. Works great in Windows and Ubuntu Linux. I am writing a business proposal now and all the menu enhancements make this very easy to use.
  
  I look forward to seeing the final version of Symphony 3.
  
  A tip of the hat to IBM.
  

• Steve said on Feb 7, 2010 1:08 PM:

  Been using Symphony on my Mac and a few XP boxes for aw while but you really really really need to smooth out the download process it is way to complicated and confusing for most users.
  

• actiontele said on Feb 8, 2010 9:22 PM:

  Ver 3, Beta 2 download process is convoluted....perhaps it's a test....
  
  Anyway, I tried to follow the directions found in a Q&A to set the "save as" file format to always save in an MS Ofc format.
  
  In Mac version, can't find the correct setting in Preferences to always save as "example.doc". Is this possible? How about "example.docx"?
  

• Alder Zafir said on Feb 9, 2010 8:17 AM:

  Download works fine, i have no troubles with downloading Symphony ever and i am using it since 1 beta 2. Its really nice software, but still:
  
  ADD LOTUS APROACH!
  

• Thomas said on Feb 10, 2010 8:35 AM:

  10 minutes spent found multiple, completely broken MS Office 2003 conversions of docs with *simple* header/footer, overlay, embedded picture.
  
  No reason to list any specifics, because this is at such a basic level that well... back to the drawing board and get your testers more coffee, 'cause DAMN.
  
  Blame MS for it if you will, but fighting the de facto standard you *have* to do better conversion than that.
  

• Ravindra Prabhu said on Feb 18, 2010 10:04 PM:

  Much much better than earlier version. Thank you. Awesome. Even MS compatibility is much improved. Still, I feel you shouldn't have taken this long time after v1.3 to give only improvements. I expected tools similar to Open office Base and Draw (something like visio). Are there any plans for such releases?
  

• Gary Flakheart said on Feb 24, 2010 7:03 AM:

  Would love the addition of something similar to publisher to this lineup, the only thing I miss.
  

• DONCASTERSOUTHAMPTON said on Feb 24, 2010 11:37 AM:

  Very difficult to download in comparison to open office 3.3 dev which downloaded and installed like a thundering train! Tried download director freezes windows. When I tried to save beta 3 dev version to desktop of my windows 7 HP notebook, I am unable to discern as to which file is the installer and gave up.
  

• AVino said on Feb 24, 2010 9:10 PM:

  Very nice product!
  
  When Lotus Symphony 3 will be available in Russian ?
  

• Rylan said on Feb 24, 2010 10:44 PM:

  When the symphony 3 RTM will be released?
  

• Greg C. Garrett said on Mar 11, 2010 4:24 PM:

  Worthless to our organization.
  
  The 1.3 version at least had a Lotus WordPro filter included. The only halfway useable WordPro filter for convertion to OD. It was only halfway useable because it only worked on the most basic documents, but AT LEAST the was something.... an effort. It served us poorly, but we have waited and waited, hoping for an improved filter. We are after all IBM CUSTOMERS!!! LOTUS WordPro was after all a Lotus product, purchased, sold, and maintained by IBM. Converting documents with a DOC filter, again is a poor choice, since it looses formating on full featured WordPro documents.
  
  Let's be honest. Symphony 1.x was an embarrasment coming from Lotus/IBM. Filled with bugs, unstable, and compared to Open Office, it was, well, embarrasing.
  

• Patrick said on Apr 10, 2010 2:24 PM:

  Having seen the "UI" on this site "http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=30413" I must tell you sorry guys, weather that´s an improvement nor something else. Where is the wonderful 1.3 GUI gone?
  
  It was such a wonderful fresh step forward, and now the same crap than open-office, no unique character in lotus any more.
  
  Sometimes it is better to improve already good things, than making the things more worse. And what about the nice yellow-grey style?
  

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