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Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice (news.itsfoss.com)
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[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

isn't openoffice the better one or is the jury still out on that one?

i dunno, I just wordpad everything

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

LibreOffice is based on OpenOffice but OpenOffice is basically abandoned with every few updates or improvements over a good handful of years now. LibreOffice is generally seen as the successor and I wouldn’t be surprised is OpenOffice just gets archived.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

absconded

Are you sure this is the word you meant to use? Having trouble parsing the sentence. How does a piece of software "abscond"?

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I meant to say abandoned, no clue why it autocorrected to that on my phone.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ah ok I figured you meant something else.

[–] snowfalldreamland@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think you have it backwards. LibreOffice is the better one. OpenOffice has not seen any real updates since 2015. ( The apache foundation that is technicality still maintaining openoffice themselves say that OpenOffice has too many open security issues)

[–] Freshness5193z@reddthat.com -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think openoffice might be better for compatibility with Microsoft format docx.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, OpenOffice is dead in the water. Either use LibreOffice or, maybe, one of its forks.

[–] Freshness5193z@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Lol your right I meant onlyoffice, my bad