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LibreOffice Going Online and Mobile

Posted by timothy on from the this-rocks-quite-hard dept.

itwbennett writes "News from the LibreOffice Conference in Paris is trickling out. Blogger Brian Proffitt has a roundup of the conference announcements thus far. Notably included are plans for a browser-based version of LibreOffice called LibreOffice Online; and ports of LibreOffice to the Android and iOS platforms."

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  1. LibreOffice Online... by Zibodiz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would that be hosted with cloud storage? If not, I'm not sure what the benefit would be. If it will be, then who will be carrying the tab?

  2. Re:Or... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 3, Informative

    Have you tried it recently? It's really very good.

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  3. LibreOffice Online - now with free seats by the_other_chewey · · Score: 3, Funny

    "LibreOffice Online"... seriously? LOO?

    I assume it will be accessed via a series of pipes?

  4. Re:Or... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, it really needs a ribbon thing so that one can hide all the menu items behind huge icons and 'mouse over' moves. It is important to have huge icons, since people who use a word processor obviously cannot read and therefore cannot use menus...

  5. Are you serious?? by jampola · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have recently moved 50 computers from Windows to Linux here in Thailand and the most comments I get related to the move is how much better Libreoffice is than MSO 2k7. This might have something to do with a far more simplistic interface than what 2k7 has and also the brilliant Thai translation for LO. Apart from the odd formatting issues when sharing documents between Libreoffice and MS office (usually font mismatches), it has been a successful move. I would welcome an open source mobile version of Libreoffice to use on my Galaxy Tab and Android phone.

  6. Mobile Viewer by tverbeek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While I would welcome an iOS version of LibreOffice some day, what I really want in the near future is a viewer for its native file formats.

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  7. Re:iOS Version? I thought that didn't work by bWareiWare.co.uk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is LGPL, so they can use their existing code as a library and write a closed source iOS UI.