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LibreOffice
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LibreOffice
@LibreOffice
The free and private office suite – successor to OpenOffice. But also a worldwide open source community! Follow us at fosstodon.org/@libreoffice
Joined September 2010
- LibreOffice doesn't do this. Enough said.Heads up: Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt
- More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/0…
- Bye bye, Windows 10! Microsoft is stopping support for the operating system today. If you're still using it, now is a good time to consider alternatives such as Linux, which is free and open source (like LibreOffice): blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/1… #endof10
- More and more governments and organisations are freeing themselves from vendor lock-in! The Austrian military has moved 16,000 PCs to #LibreOffice – getting vital digital sovereignty in the process: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/3…
- Running OpenOffice? Looking for something more up-to-date? Check out #LibreOffice, the successor project! It has huge improvements across the board – and is still free and open source: libreoffice.org/discover/libre…
- Today marks nine years since the last big OpenOffice update (4.1). If you're still using it, but want something more up-to-date, check out LibreOffice! It was based on OpenOffice and is also free and open source, but with huge improvements and many fixes: libreoffice.org/discover/libre…
- Replying to @TechloreIncWow. Just... wow. If only there were a free office suite – from a non-profit – that works offline, has zero ads, doesn't mine your data or have any interest in what you do. Oh wait...
- 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: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/02/0…
- Did you know that #LibreOffice has a built-in QR and barcode generator? Now you do 😉 help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/t…
- Got OpenOffice? Looking for something more actively developed and up-to-date? Check out LibreOffice, the successor project! It's also free and open source, but with many improvements – and regular bugfixes and security updates: libreoffice.org/discover/libre…
- Not only is one German state moving from Microsoft to LibreOffice, but the whole federal government is committing to move to open standards by 2027: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/2…
- Major update! #LibreOffice 7.5 is now available, with: ✅ Dark mode improvements ✅ Data tables in charts ✅ Better bookmark handling ...and much more. Huge thanks to the LibreOffice community for making this release! Learn more, and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/02/0…
- We shouldn't need to say this, but as we see how the software world is changing... Your documents are yours. #LibreOffice will never peek at your files, and what's yours stays on your computer, unless you explicitly choose to share something. That's how it should be.
