Microsoft Excel has been the king of spreadsheets for decades. Now that more people are turning to open-source alternatives, LibreOffice Calc enters the conversation. Let's examine some key features ...

About a month ago, I reported on LibreOffice accusing Microsoft's "artificially complex" Office XML format of being a "lock-in strategy." The basis of LibreOffice's argument was that Microsoft's usage ...

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LibreOffice, the OpenOffice fork, is a very popular open-source office suite. But, while it has great support from Linux distributors, like openSUSE and Ubuntu, LibreOffice has never had a major ...

Recap: The developers of LibreOffice, a free and open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, have repeatedly criticized Microsoft's proprietary software policies over the past few months. Although a ...

There are numerous ways to get Microsoft Office. You can purchase it, and install it on your desktop. You can take out a Microsoft 365 subscription that includes ...

It’s hard to imagine an open source project more likely to fail than one that attempts to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft’s Office productivity suite. That’s because, as the de-facto standard used by ...

Welcome back. For today’s 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post, I am taking a look at LibreOffice–the open source suite of productivity tools that comes installed by default with Ubuntu Linux. I examine how ...

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