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Just for fun, I looked up when the various office apps updated.
Apache Open Office last updated on July, 22 2022. It split from the original Open Office in 2012.
LibreOffice was last updated on January 12, 2023. It split from OGOOo in 2011.
The version of NeoOffice I have on The Mac side of things is 3.4 released on October 11, 2013! It's based, in turn on OGOOo 3.1.1. Ancient.
I think I'm impressed that the old version on The Mac opens stuff I've modified with the newer LibreOffice.
i think the last version of office I bought or got a copy of and actually installed was office 2000... by that time it was getting pretty expensive and I found I really wasn't using it enough to pay for it, even the student version wasn't worth it to me... that's when I found libre and it does everything I need... and the fact it opens office documents made it a no brainer....panzer guy
ReplyDeleteI never actually bought Office, or pretty much willingly any other bit of software from the evil empire in Redmond. However, I at one time had to use MS Office at work. I've been using Libre, and before that Open Office and before that StarOffice (the progression back to the beginning) for a long time, since before it was Open Source. I actually paid for the early versions of StarOffice after Sun Microsystems bought the German company StarDivision. That was back in the mid to late 1990s. Sun eventually Open Sourced it, then Sun was bought by Oracle... and there were the splits that people have noticed... But the software has really gotten pretty full featured and rock solid over the years. To the point that we actually use it where I work. One of the main reasons is LibreOffice does a MUCH better job of generating PDF than MS's products do. MS generated PDFs are generally a steaming pile of dung. If you open a .docx for example and export it with MS-Word, it is nearly unusable opening it in a PDF editor and trying to tweak forms, etc. On the other hand do the same thing with LibreOffice, and you can actually work with it...
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