Hi everyone,
this is my first time using OpenOffice, and I would like to know about this,
Since OpenOffice has not been updated ever since October of 2021, will OpenOffice be continuing development?
and with the Apple M1 transition expected to be finished by later this year, will OpenOffice be ported to Apple M1 Mac Computers?
[Solved] Will OpenOffice continued to be developed
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[Solved] Will OpenOffice continued to be developed
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Denis Xiang, OpenOffice on macOS Monterey, OpenOffice 4.1.11
Re: Will OpenOffice continued to be developed
In my opinion...
... AOO, or Apache Open Office, is walking dead due to lack of developers to develop it. AOO seems to me to struggle even to produce the mandatory "two updates per year" required to keep the Apache brand. AOO appears to be "functionally stabilised" and I doubt new function will ever be added or significant bugs get fixed.
LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice.org some years ago and most of the OpenOffice.org development team transferred to LO. LO is under active development. LO has fixed some of the major bugs causing complete user data loss in AOO files, and has vastly improved the "lost images" problem. LO has better compatability with MS Office file formats and can write to .docx/.xlsx/.pptx etc formats.
After about 20 years of using OO and then AOO I transferred to LO last year.
... AOO, or Apache Open Office, is walking dead due to lack of developers to develop it. AOO seems to me to struggle even to produce the mandatory "two updates per year" required to keep the Apache brand. AOO appears to be "functionally stabilised" and I doubt new function will ever be added or significant bugs get fixed.
LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice.org some years ago and most of the OpenOffice.org development team transferred to LO. LO is under active development. LO has fixed some of the major bugs causing complete user data loss in AOO files, and has vastly improved the "lost images" problem. LO has better compatability with MS Office file formats and can write to .docx/.xlsx/.pptx etc formats.
After about 20 years of using OO and then AOO I transferred to LO last year.
LO 6.4.4.2, Windows 10 Home 64 bit
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
Re: Will OpenOffice continued to be developed
The last visible new feature was the side bar in 2013.
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/li ... penoffice/
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/li ... penoffice/
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