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LibreOffice 5.0 Released

New submitter ssam writes: The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 5.0, the tenth major release since the launch of the project, bringing new features including Windows 10, Android and Ubuntu touch compatibility, superior interoperability features, an updated UI, and lots of under the hood improvements. For people still running OpenOffice it is probably time to move over.

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  1. Re:OpenOffice vs LibreOffice by nine-times · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, LibreOffice just hit version 5.0, while OpenOffice is at 4.1.1. Obviously, LibreOffice is exactly 0.8.9 amount better.

  2. Re:Question for user community by RazorSharp · · Score: 4, Funny

    I understand why you're hesitant to try it out and see for yourself, being such a costly program and all.

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  3. Re:OpenOffice vs LibreOffice by Mr+D+from+63 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm waiting for Nacho LibreOffice.

  4. Re:Apache Openoffice is "dormant"? by Translation+Error · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry! I'm sure SourceForge will revive it and add a shiny new installer!

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  5. Re:apache foundation? by ssam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Companies won't use any software that they can't make closed source derivatives of. That why no company uses MS Office.

  6. Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure.

    What's the dialling code for 1989?

  7. Re: Three cheers for liberty! by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Funny

    I switched him to Mozilla Thunderbird with the Lightning Calendar Addon and the problem has been solved. It is now 2 years later and haven't heard a peep about his email.

    Email didn't happen to be your only method of communication with him was it?

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  8. Re:OpenOffice vs LibreOffice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's because we found all the emacs supporters, went to their houses, and killed them.