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LibreOffice bashes Microsoft for "absurd" OOXML format and Excel's handling of dates

Usama Jawad — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:42:01 +0000

LibreOffice just launched another brutal attack on Microsoft Office, accusing it of trapping users with broken and misleading file standards. Read more...

EU forced to add open document option after criticism over Microsoft Excel template

Usama Jawad — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:20:02 +0000

LibreOffice's developer slammed the EU for using an Excel template for CRA feedback. It didn't take long for the situation to shift. Read more...

LibreOffice improves interoperability with Microsoft Office files

Usama Jawad — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:40:01 +0000

LibreOffice's latest version has enhanced compatibility and interoperability with Microsoft Office files. Read more...

LibreOffice 7.3 arrives with a focus on Microsoft Office compatibility

Paul Hill — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:32:01 +0000

The Document Foundation has just released LibreOffice 7.3. It comes with a bunch of new features and several improvements to the in-built help tool so that it's more useful to users. Read more...

OpenDocument Format 1.3 becomes approved as an OASIS Standard format

Paul Hill — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 12:40:01 +0000

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3 has become approved as a standard by OASIS Standard. Software that want to support ODF will now have specifications to meet making it easier to add support. Read more...

LibreOffice 7.0 launched with OpenDocument Format 1.3 support

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:26:01 +0000

The Document Foundation has announced the launch of LibreOffice 7.0. The new release improves Microsoft Office compatibility, adds Skia and Vulkan support, and handles ODF 1.3 files. Read more...

LibreOffice 6.3 is out with tabbed UI expanded to more of the suite

Paul Hill — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:18:01 +0000

The Document Foundation has announced the general availability of LibreOffice 6.3. In this update, the suite has received some UI changes and adds more support for proprietary file formats. Read more...

Italian military to drop Microsoft Office for LibreOffice

Jett Goldsmith — Thu, 12 May 2016 20:40:01 +0000

The Italian Ministry of Defense has announced that it will switch the software on all of its computers from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, in a move which will save up to €29 million. Read more...

Microsoft wants UK government to support both Open XML, ODF for documents

John Callaham — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:24:41 +0000

Microsoft is urging the U.K. government to support both the Open XML and ODF formats for official documents, rather than just ODF, which Microsoft says will exclude recent versions of Office. Read more...

Revealed: Office 2010 ballot screen for default file format, OOXML or ODF

Tom Warren — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:49:49 +0000

Microsoft has made several changes to a Release Candidate version of Office 2010 made available to testers recently. One change in particular prompts users whether they want to use Office Open XML (OOXML) or OpenDocument... Read more...

Finally, Google Docs can open DOCX and XLSX files

James Hall — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:43:08 +0000

Why has it taken them so long? A bit of history may help us to understand. When Microsoft released Office 2007, they updated key formats for saving files, including Word DOC, Excel XLS, and... Read more...