LibreOffice was effectively the new version of OpenOffice.įortunately, as LibreOffice was basically OpenOffice with further improvements, there was little new to learn when switching to it – existing OpenOffice users would quickly feel at home with LibreOffice. However, LibreOffice took the code of OpenOffice and continued to build on and improve it, enhancing performance and fixing many bugs. So OpenOffice was abandoned and its main commercial sponsor (Oracle) washed their hands of it.Īs a result, OpenOffice was not updated for nearly a year (2 years for the portable version) and development.
However, a few years ago the majority of the development team and corporate sponsors left the project to create LibreOffice instead – effectively they took the freely available OpenOffice code, changed the name and then continued to develop it as a new product. OpenOffice is also a well known free Office suite and has a large user base. There are several good free alternatives but LibreOffice is my favorite – it’s a full office suite which includes Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Presentation programs that can read and write documents used by MS Office. For home users I think in many cases they don’t really need MS Office. In my computer repair business, people often ask me whether they really need to buy Microsoft (MS) Office or if there is a good free alternative. I always recommend LibreOffice as the best free alternative to Microsoft Office.
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