Yearly Archive:: 2025

LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2025

LibreOffice Conference 2025 merchandise

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • At the start of the month, the LibreOffice Conference 2025 took place in Budapest, Hungary. We had talks, workshops, fun social events and

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ί LibreOffice in Latin America: heading to Havana for the 2025 Latin American Congress

From October 6 to 9, Havana, Cuba, will host the Latin American LibreOffice 2025 Conference, a meeting that will bring together contributors, developers, universities, and governments from the region to celebrate and

The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the DOCX case)

The complexity of the OOXML format is linked to its design and was deliberately created to make the format more difficult for non-Microsoft software developers to implement. Compatibility issues are caused by a veritable “maze”

LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #5 – Accessibility in Free and Open Source Software

LibreOffice strives to be accessible for people with special needs or limitations, such as visual impairment or limited motor abilities. How does the software work towards this? What accessibility features are in the pipeline? And how can all users help out? We talk to Michael Weghorn about these topics – and more. (This episode

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The Document Foundation's team

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Austria’s military switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice

Logo of Bundesheer

Like we’re seeing in Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and many other government bodies and organisations, the Austrian military (Bundesheer) has migrated 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.

As Heise reports, the main reasons behind the switch are to:

  • strengthen digital sovereignty
  • maintain independence of IT infrastructure
  • ensure that