The LibreOffice project came about late in 2010 when it became increasingly uncertain what Oracle’s intentions were for OpenOffice.org, which it acquired after purchasing Sun. LibreOffice is overseen ...

LibreOffice, the fork of the open source OpenOffice.org productivity suite, has released it first stable product in version 3.3, now available for download. LibreOffice is a project of the newly ...

The Document Foundation has this week announced the release of a new version of LibreOffice in the form of the LibreOffice 7.1 Community edition. Offering a brand-new version of the awesome pre-open ...

Programmers gave Oracle's OpenOffice a good code-scrubbing to build the LibreOffice 3.3 offshoot. Expect more visible changes with 3.4 later this year. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: The first finalized release of the OpenOffice.org spin-off, LibreOffice, has hit the web at version 3.3. It's got a few unique features, an ever-so-slightly tweaked look, and the ...

The LibreOffice suite has more momentum behind it than OpenOffice.org, and also writes to the .docx format natively. Here's how to switch out OpenOffice.org for a more regularly updated LibreOffice ...