LibreOffice 5.2 Officially Released (softpedia.com)

prisoninmate writes from a report via Softpedia: LibreOffice 5.2 is finally here, after it has been in development for the past four months, during which the development team behind one of the best free office suites have managed to implement dozens of new features and improvements to most of the application's components. Key features include more UI refinements to make it flexible for anyone, standards-based document classification, forecasting functions in Calc, the spreadsheet editor, as well as lots of Writer and Impress enhancements. A series of videos are provided to see what landed in the LibreOffice 5.2 office suite, which is now available for download for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Comments

Re:Does anyone even use SO any more?

[Tablizer]

It fails to properly load almost all the Microsoft Office files...

To be fair, MS's "standards" are not standards, and poorly documented. One would have match Office kludge-for-kludge to make it truly compatible with Office.

MS has negative financial incentive to make it easier to migrate away from Office. Bad formats make them rich.

LibreOffice is a winner!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I bought 5 laptops that each came with a free year of Office 360.
I sold the Office 360 activations for $30 each and installed LibreOffice.
After using LibreOffice for about a year, I can't understand why anyone would buy Office 360.
You can try the portable version without even doing an install - run it from a flash stick even.
The portable version will be somewhat slow, but allows you to evaluate everything except speed.
If you plan to buy or renew an Office 360 subscription, download LibreOffice first.
It's free, easy and you might like it better.

Re:Yes and No

[CrankyOldEngineer]

This comment is pure FUD. I write a lot in my work. Large complicated documents with outlines, headings, indices, tables, you name it. Needless to say, I and my colleagues use MS Office in its various versions at the office. I have used LO at home since it forked and OO before that. In recent years I have had almost 0 compatibility/formatting issues. LO is more compatible with MS than the various versions of MS are with each other!