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
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06 Oct 2025
🇨🇺 LibreOffice in Latin America: heading to Havana for the 2025 Latin American Congress
03 Oct 2025
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”
02 Oct 2025
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
30 Sep 2025
Austria’s military switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice
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
28 Sep 2025
LibreOffice turns 15: a celebration of freedom, collaboration and open technologies and standards
Fifteen years ago, we announced our ambitious plan to provide the world with a fully free and open office suite created by and for the community. Today, we are celebrating 15 years of LibreOffice —
27 Sep 2025
The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the XLSX case)
The post, published on 18 July 2025, which explained why an artificially complex XML schema, such as that used by Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office) files, is in fact a subtle tool for locking