This happened to me with MS Office Online. I began using it with my Hotmail account when if first came out. I had quite a few documents on it, then, one day, I received a message that I needed to pay for one of their plans to access my documents. That was the final time I ever used MS Office.
On the bright side, I already had #LibreOffice, so the switch was easy.
A talk from the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 in Luxembourg, with Patrick Weber. More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffic...
Berlin, 20 February 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.5, the fifth minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available on our d…
Tell us a bit about yourself! I live in Lagos, Nigeria, and I spend my time dabbling into user experience design with research, although these days, I’m diving deeper into research. I’m a big fan of books, especially well-written fiction.
Unfortunately, this year I could not join nor organize any in-person celebration, BUT of course I want to share my gratitude to the many, countless #FreeSoftware services I don’t merely use, but actually depend on.
Last year, I decided to focus only on #YunoHost, because it would have been crazy to list all the projects I use and I love.
This time, even if I will most certainly forget someone, I am challenging myself to mention all the #LibreSoftware my life is powered by.
#Obtainium, for making me directly download apps on my phone, and @fdroidorg for distributing them
#AuroraStore, for proxying the download of apps I am doomed to get from Google Play
@element, for developing #Synapse, even though the new proprietary Synapse Pro is VERY PROBLEMATIC AND DISAPPOINTING
#Fractal, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Matrix client ever
@signalapp, for keeping me connected with the people I love
@Mastodon, for also maintaining a feature-packed experimental fork (#GlitchSoc), that is what Pan runs
#Tuba and #Moshidon, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Mastodon clients ever
#Firefox, for still remaining the best possible #browser choice, despite #Mozilla’s governance messiness
@openstreetmap, for allowing us to find the right path, both literally and metaphorically!
@organicmaps, for being the simplest, cleanest, yet feature-rich #OSM client and navigation app
@protonvpn, for making me browse safely from/to anywhere in the planet and @protonprivacy #ProtonMail, for hosting my email, despite the latest alarming political statements…
@libreoffice, for allowing me to draft documents with ease, the last of which was my #CV
#LanguageTool, for preventing me from making embarassing spelling mistakes
@photoprism, for safely storing and indexing all my photographic memories, on Aby, and for providing stellar and friendly support too!
#Actual, for moderating the very likely risk of ending up completely broke, since it forces me to manage my finances consciously and coherently
@readeck, for storing and sorting ALL my varied and overwhelming inputs
@nextcloud, for storing and synchronizing my data, for its #calendar, its #tasks, and all its awesome apps
#Rustdesk, for preventing my friends and family members from going crazy, by allowing me to remotely connect to their devices and directly address the issues they have
@forgejo, for giving us a chance to truly control and collectively develop the sources of our software, but most importantly @Codeberg, for RESISTING, RESISTING, RESISTING, despite the hatred and attacks nazi assholes throw at them
@musicbrainz for keeping music knowledge open and free, and @ListenBrainz for scrobbling the crazy music I listen to
The @fsfe, for promoting this celebration and fighting the good fight!
Lastly, but most importantly, the biggest thank you goes to all the free software libraries and dependencies the above mentioned #software are made of/built with, including #C, #JavaScript, #Python, #Rust, and all community-maintained programming languages.
New in #LibreOffice 25.2, our latest major update: A status bar icon indicates when Data ▸ Calculate ▸ AutoCalculate is switched off. #foss #opensource
One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 25.2, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too.
We hope you're enjoying the new features in #LibreOffice 25.2! Our community of developers, from the ecosystem and volunteers, is working hard on improvements across the suite. Here's what they did in January: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #opensource
General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for new Calc functions TOROW(), TOCOL(), WRAPROWS(), WRAPCOLS(), EXPAND(), TAKE() and DROP(), added dark mode support to the help interface, improved help for PDF/UA, did cleanups in the Xapian…
New in #LibreOffice 25.2, our latest major update: Hovering the mouse over a heading in the Navigator displays a tooltip showing the word and character count of the content associated with it. #foss #opensource #freesoftware
#LibreOffice #foss #opensource #freesoftware I have a serious question. Will LibreOffice ever be a product with batteries included regarding grammar and spell check on a high level? I know that we have a very good spell checking, but I was wondering if there's ever something planned to have a really working grammar and style checking tool like languagetool out of the box.
The new major release provides many user interface and accessibility improvements, plus the usual interoperability features Berlin, 6 February 2025 – LibreOffice 25.
just boosting in #dk #dkmastodon … 30,000 PCs are moving from Microsoft Office to #LibreOffice in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. At the recent Univention Summit 2025, we met the people handling the migration
#LibreOffice is used by 200 million people. Every major release goes through extensive testing – and there are regular minor updates to fix issues too. The #QA Team analyses bug reports from users, and here’s an example of how quickly they can work: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource
LibreOffice is used by 200 million people around the world. Every major release goes through extensive testing, with Alpha, Beta and Release Candidate versions – and there are regular monthly minor updates to fix issues too.
The histogram says it all. First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice.
Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth and last pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024.
Dione Maddern and The Documentation Team are proud to announce the immediate availability of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 24.8, an update of the existing Calc Guide 24.2 with enhancements taken from the current LibreOffice 24.8 Calc module.
We're into a fresh new year, but here's a quick look at what the #LibreOffice development and QA community did in December! Including simplified dialog boxes, a better dark mode, and text effect improvements: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.4 was announced on December 19 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the warning in Help when JavaScript is not active and did many cleanups in help pages Dione Maddern created a help page for Alignment Sidebar deck Alain …
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LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024.
Berlin, 19 December 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8.4, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at www.
General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.3 was announced on November 14 Olivier Hallot (TDF) did big updates to screenshots in Help, added a help page for login/password dialog and improved help pages on Skia, Writer Navigator and Edit – External links in…
We've edited and uploaded another 24 videos from the recent #LibreOffice Conference 2024! So the playlist is now 51 videos – enjoy learning about the technology and community behind our free and private office suite: youtube.com/watch?v=lsMoOtAxqh… #foss #OpenSource
A quick look back at the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024, which took place in Luxembourg from 10 - 12 October.LibreOffice is a free and private o...
Our team member Peter Schofield just updated the Impress, Draw and Math guides to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 release. The Impress, Draw and Math guides are the authoritative guides for the end user.
Me: "Hey it would be nice if #LibreOffice could provide a nicer name and icon to the operating system's processes list, at least on Linux, instead of still using the StarOffice binary's filename from 39 years ago…"
That dude who never touches code but always shoots down proposals: "ABSOLUTELY NOT 😒"
Our Czech community provides insights from the LinuxDays 2024 conference, which took place over the weekend of 12 – 13 October in Prague: At the LibreOffice booth, there was a very large group of people (with a few exceptions) of satisfied LibreOffic…
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… The main theme of November was the Month of LibreOffice, saying thanks for community contributions all across the …
