LibreOffice Gets a Streamlined Makeover With 4.4 Release

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 29, 2015 @12:11PM from the check-it-out dept.

TechCurmudgeon sends word that LibreOffice 4.4 has been released. "The Document foundation announced availability of the latest version of LibreOffice on Thursday, which it says is the most beautiful version of the open source productivity suite yet. LibreOffice 4.4 also fixes some compatibility issues with files that are saved in Microsoft's OOXML formats. LibreOffice 4.4 has got a lot of UX and design love," Jan "Kendy" Holesovsky, who leads the design team for Libreoffice, said in a statement. LibreOffice 4.4 is currently available for Windows."

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Re:Native UI conventions...? by markdavis · 2015-01-29 18:53 · Score: 1, Troll

Spoken like a MacOS user. I knew it reading just the first sentence.
It is more important to business that the UI look the same across platforms (I know, I am business, and we use LO) so I am not sure why you would use that as a reason for looking more native.