which is better openoffice or libreoffice 2012

In my experience, because the software is less ‘bloated’ it is also much less likely to go wrong than MS Office – and it doesn’t need any silly activation or registration process.Its installation file is about one fifth of the size of MS Office and takes less time to install.it can read documents created in MS Office and write documents that MS Office users can read It is compatible with MS Office documents i.e.It can be used legally by home users and businesses (businesses cannot legally use the Home & Student version of MS Office, they must buy the Business version or Office 365).It is totally free and can be installed on as many computers as you like – unlike MS Office Home & Student edition which is limited to 1 computer.In recent years OpenOffice has been resurrected, rebranded as Apache OpenOffice and updated – but LibreOffice still enjoyed a head start for a long time and I’ve seen nothing since that convinces me OpenOffice has caught up – it certainly hasn’t overtaken LibreOffice. 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.

Which is better openoffice or libreoffice 2012