News - LibreOffice 4.0 now available

[HEXUS]

Cleaner, leaner and more fully featured complete office suite - downloadable for free.

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[maverik-sg1]

Is it better than open office?

[jim]

If you don't know already, LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice - Oracle took over OpenOffice effectively when they purchased Sun, and the developers decided to fork rather than stick. Looks like OpenOffice is now Apache, so who knows what's happened from there onwards.

Personally, I'd be looking at LibreOffice.

[technodean]

As snootyjim says, go with libreoffice. when the they took over I ran the 2 for a while, but found libreoffice to have more/ better updates.

[maverik-sg1]

Ahh thanks peeps - I was not aware of all the shenannigans that had ensued, quick google reveled all I needed to know to proceed - will downlaod and install over the weekend

[rabbid]

Good can give this a try, see if its less bloated then the previous version, as its claiming good improvement.

Libre is updated more often and includes more extras than open office, depends if you like, need or want the extra things it offers I guess?

[bobharvey]

Hurrah!

All the office gear thatn 99.9% of people need, and for freeeeeee!

[crossy]

Is it better than open office?

No contest in my book - Libre is smaller, faster, more featured and doesn't have "Oracle" slapped here, there and everywhere.

I like Libre quite a lot, and if LibreCalc was a heck of a lot better then I'd have no need for any version of "proper" Office. Especially as Libre has a version of the Office 2003 UI, which means none of the "where the ***k did they put that feature" nonsense that came in with the Office 2007+ UI.

Definitely looking forward to getting "4.0" out there to replace the current installs.

[Gunbuster]

I wouldn't say I want a Office 2007+ UI, but a circa 1997 UI doesn't inspire me either. I think graphical apps like Draw & Impress should have UIs tailored to their uses, not hamstrung by the past or other suite applications.

[Will013]

Already have open office - is libre office any better? Worth the upgrade? Don't have any problems with open office atm, are there many differences? Cheers

[danroyle]

Will it work on windows 8. For some reason I can't get my office 2010 to install on windows. It gets to halfway and then gets stuck.

[slimmifire]

Will it work on windows 8. For some reason I can't get my office 2010 to install on windows. It gets to halfway and then gets stuck.

Works with windows 8 with no problems.