LibreOffice 3.5 Released

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @04:12AM from the because-it-is-awesome dept.

First time accepted submitter wrldwzrd89 writes "The Document Foundation, the team behind the free and open-source office suite called LibreOffice, has released their latest and greatest version. As is typical with major releases of LibreOffice, there are significant new features making their debut in this version. The component with the biggest upgrade is Calc, which now has support for up to 10,000 sheets per workbook among its new features. Also noteworthy among the new features is support for importing Microsoft Visio files in Impress and Draw. The full feature list is available in a PDF hosted on Dropbox; LibreOffice itself can be downloaded here."

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Here we go again by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-14 04:28 · Score: 0, Troll

Great, a major LO upgrade. That means I download it, install it, and see how many minutes it takes me before I hit a large enough Office compatibility snag that makes me delete it and swear off giving it another shot.
Don't get me wrong -- I would LOVE to have a viable alternative to MS Office, and would gladly pay the price of Office for such a package, if only to promote it and piss off MS at the same time. I've been using MS's software as long as they've been in existence, and Office has to be one of the most useful and utterly frustrating of their products. But OO/LO simply aren't (yet) viable full-time replacements for everyone.