IBM plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to Microsoft's dominance of personal computer software, by offering free programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. The ...

IBM Lotus Symphony, which is a free suite of office applications for viewing documents, spreadsheets and presentations -- and is an alternative to Microsoft Office, passed the 100,000 downloads mark ...

U.S. patent leader IBM Corp. plans to donate 500 patents for free use by software developers, marking a shift in intellectual property strategy for the world’s top computer maker and a challenge to ...

Lotus Symphony has passed the 100,000 downloads mark this week, according to IBM. The download figure is a record for IBM software "surpassing the previous record held by Lotus Notes", IBM said in a ...