LibreOffice Still Kicking At 40, Now With Browser Tricks And Real-Time Collab
The Register, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Standard FOSS office suite continues to evolve in interesting new directions
LibreOffice is a big, mature chunk of code now, but that doesn't make it impossible to teach it impressive new tricks. Some of them could make it more important than ever.
The open-source office suite had its own program stream at FOSDEM, including the pre-announcement of the new LibreOffice release 25.2. It has been around in some form since 1985, so this version marks its 40th year. It's middle-aged and, almost inevitably, that means it's big, a bit saggy in places, it definitely has some issues, and it doesn't look as good as it did a couple of decades ago.