Microsoft, Judge Jackson determined that because of IBM's marketing of Lotus SmartSuite, and other alternatives to Microsoft products (like World Book electronic encyclopedia instead of Microsoft's Encarta ), Microsoft "punished the IBM PC Company with higher prices, a late license for Windows 95, and the withholding of technical and marketing support." In his finding of facts for United States v. Furthermore, several of the SmartSuite components provide functionality not found in the Microsoft Office suite, for example Lotus FastSite and Lotus SmartCenter. The Microsoft programs, however, are capable of reading only a few vintage formats of the Lotus programs, such as the older 1-2-3. Most SmartSuite programs are capable of reading and writing the corresponding Microsoft Office files. A subsequent Fixpack 5 was released in October 2007 followed by Fixpack 6 in December 2008, although these Fixpacks only contained changes to the Lotus Approach database software. Fixpack 3 was released in October 2005 and Fixpack 4 in October 2006. All subsequent releases were only available to IBM Passport Advantage subscribers.
(1996) - SmartSuite 97 - Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 (1-2-3 97, Word Pro 97, Approach 97, Freelance Graphics 97, Organizer 97, ScreenCam 4.0 and SmartCenter).5, Approach 3.0, Ami Pro 3.1, Freelance Graphics 2.1, Organizer 2.1, ScreenCam 1.1). Lotus vCard & vCalendar Viewer - instant vCard and vCalendar viewer.
It was an optional extra in later versions of eComStation. ĮComStation 1.0 included the OS/2 version of Smartsuite. IBM has no plans to release an official Windows 7-compatible version of SmartSuite.
SmartSuite is not officially supported by IBM on versions of Windows after XP, but it does work well on both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, and early Windows 10 versions if the installer and applications are run with XP compatibility mode set for the executable files.
SmartSuite used to be in maintenance mode, and supported with fixes and fixpacks on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. SmartSuite is no longer supported and maintained.