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The Barrie Computer and Technology Club

Oracle's OpenOffice Surrender

2/4/2012

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When Oracle announced that it would keep Open Office to itself, the open source community responded by starting a new edition of the package, Libre Office. (Read more about this story)

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Oracles-OpenOffice-Surrender-72329.html
 If you haven't given Libre Office a try, you may want to!
There are some significant improvements.
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/

If you are closely connected with people using newer versions of Microsoft office there are some compatibility issues but in my experience issues arise only with some of the very advanced functionality that most people do not get into. In fact, with moving to Libre Office, I have noticed fewer issues.


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