Searching for a free desktop alternative to Microsoft Office? Look no further than LibreOffice and OpenOffice. These two open-source productivity suites are both great choices if you’re looking ...

When it comes to open source office suites, most people choose OpenOffice or LibreOffice, and they both look suspiciously similar. That isn’t surprising since they both started with exactly the ...

But how close is LibreOffice to overtaking OpenOffice, the king of open source productivity suites? The short answer is that LibreOffice has a long way to go. OpenOffice (which descended from Sun ...

OpenOffice and LibreOffice are the two main options if you’re looking for free office software. And, you might not be sure which one is the best for your needs. You need to consider a few things ...

A simple find-and-replace would have been performed to substitute “LibreOffice” for all instances of “OpenOffice.org”. The Document Foundation quickly set out to differentiate itself from ...

Developers have almost all moved to LibreOffice, the spiritual successor to OpenOffice. But OpenOffice continues to be operated as its own project, seeing little development and only drawing ...

Before long, key OpenOffice.org developers, unhappy with the status quo under Oracle, began defecting from the project. The result was LibreOffice, a new fork of the OpenOffice.org code base that ...

However, with the rise of free alternative office suites like LibreOffice and Apache’s OpenOffice to Microsoft Office, the question arises if you have to switch from Microsoft Office to open ...

That's no news to anyone who has followed the OpenOffice/LibreOffice saga. For example, LibreOffice saw 14 version updates last year, compared to one version update for OpenOffice in October 2015.

No matter what any one company might decide to do, OpenOffice.org–or LibreOffice–is now in good, independent hands.

LibreOffice, the fork of the open source OpenOffice.org productivity suite, has released it first stable product in version 3.3, now available for download. LibreOffice is a project of the newly ...

Find out more about how we test. While the once popular OpenOffice has languished for the past couple of years, the LibreOffice suite that spun off in 2011 has been steadily improving – although ...