LibreOffice 5.0 released with "significantly improved" UI

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Immediately available on Linux, MacOS X and Windows – with 64-bit Windows builds.

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Excellent. I use open office but that seems to have stalled in development, so I'll look forward to trying the latest version of libre office.

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Originally Posted by peterb

Excellent. I use open office but that seems to have stalled in development, so I'll look forward to trying the latest version of libre office.

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Open Office is basically just Libre Office anyway, isn't? I'm sure it's based on the source code fot it. The Linux guys and distros seem to pefer Libre Office. I remember reading up about it years ago. I forget what I read, but I think it was something along the lines of them thinking Open Office was basically just distributing the same program, but with a crappier privacy policy/T&C, or something like that..

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Originally Posted by ZaO

Open Office is basically just Libre Office anyway, isn't? I'm sure it's based on the source code fot it. The Linux guys and distros seem to pefer Libre Office. I remember reading up about it years ago. I forget what I read, but I think it was something along the lines of them thinking Open Office was basically just distributing the same program, but with a crappier privacy policy/T&C, or something like that..

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Oracle bought Sun, Sun owned OO. There was some discontent before, but Oracle's actions were enough to get 24 of the OO team to leave and start Libre Office.

OpenOffice really hasn't had a major update in years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org

LibreOffice is still in active development.

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Originally Posted by ZaO

Open Office is basically just Libre Office anyway, isn't? I'm sure it's based on the source code fot it. The Linux guys and distros seem to pefer Libre Office. I remember reading up about it years ago. I forget what I read, but I think it was something along the lines of them thinking Open Office was basically just distributing the same program, but with a crappier privacy policy/T&C, or something like that..

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LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice after Oracle bought Sun and the community developers weren't sure what their intentions were. Turned out they were right as eventually Oracle laid off all the Sun developers and gave OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation.

I think it's fair to say that LibreOffice gets more development than Apache OpenOffice so could be considered the more advanced product?

Might have to give it a try, the more advanced interface can't be any worse, i always thought the icon sets were like a return to Office on Windows 95...

Interesting. Thanks for the info, guys :)

Good to see that there is now a 64-bit build too. :)

Finally they released an update

But as usual with Libre Office announcements, no mention of what improvements to the poor database app, which is a long way behind MS Access