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LibreOffice 4 Released

Posted by timothy on from the whole-numbers-is-best-numbers dept.

Titus Andronicus writes "LibreOffice 4.0.0 has been released. Some of the changes are for developers: an improved API, a new graphics stack, migrating German code comments to English, and moving from Apache 2.0 to LGPLv3 & MPLv2. Some user-facing changes are: better interoperability with other software, some functional & UI improvements, and some performance gains."

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  1. Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? by armanox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Evidence please? Java is alive, kicking and screaming. Java 8 is coming down the turnpike. Java isn't going away anytime soon.

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  2. Re:MS Office mewlers and shills, queue here! by hedwards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Libreoffice uses very little Java at this point. That's one of the things that's changed since they forked from OO.org.

  3. Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Java is dead?

    Last time I checked, enterprise shops are still hiring more Java developers than any other kind. There are a lot of reasons I don't care for Java, but I would never in a million years say Java is dead.

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  4. Re:Why this dilution? by jfengel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Has there been any significant work on OpenOffice since the split?

    I'm not crazy about having efforts diluted, but if they have to pick one and go forward with it, are there any advantages to going with OpenOffice rather than LibreOffice, aside from the less dreadful name?

  5. Re:Pre-fork OO by DarwinSurvivor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've found it to be more stable and support the Microsoft formats with less errors (for the few times I'm forced to use them). It also seems a LOT more responsive and 4.0 is supposed to be even more so. At this point there's really no reason not to.

  6. Re:MS Office mewlers and shills, queue here! by mspohr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have had better luck with LibreOffice being able to read old/odd MS Office formats better than MS Office itself.
    MS often breaks compatibility with itself to force upgrades.
    YMMV

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  7. Re:Why this dilution? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look on the bright side: LibreOffice is about 2 years ahead, thanks to Oracle!