
LibreOffice
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LibreOffice is a free open source office suite. It was forked from Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice office suite. It is a collection of office-related applications. This includes a word processor, a spreadsheet program and a presentation program. It is available for many different operating systems, including Windows, macOS and Linux. It supports the OpenDocument format as well as the file formats of Microsoft Office and most other office suites.
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Original author(s) | Star Division |
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Developer(s) | The Document Foundation |
Initial release | 25 January 2011; 12 years ago (2011-01-25)[1] |
Stable release | 7.2.5
/ 6 January 2022; 15 months ago (2022-01-06) |
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Written in | C++, XML and Java[2] |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS |
Platform | x86-64 (all operating systems), IA-32, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, S390x[3] |
Standard(s) | OpenDocument |
Available in | 119 languages[4] |
Type | Office suite |
License | MPLv2.0 (secondary license GPL, LGPLv3+ or Apache License 2.0)[5] |
Website | www |
LibreOffice was created by the Document Foundation in response to Oracle Corporation's acquisition of Sun Microsystems.[6][7]