That’s an impressive number, but likely much smaller than the total installed base for Microsoft Office. The Document Foundation estimates that more than 80 million people use LibreOffice, including large enterprise and government installations. That change means users will likely see fewer groundbreaking updates, but customers will be able to expect when changes will arrive and prepare for them. Moving forward, the Document Foundation will be working on scheduled releases, rather than waiting to complete certain features before pushing out a new update. Businesses and other users who want to be more conservative are encouraged to stay on LibreOffice 4.4.5, a minor release that was pushed out last week. Users who want access to all the latest and greatest features in LibreOffice 5 can download it today. Prior to the release, the LibreOffice Android app only supported viewing files, and users couldn’t modify them. ![]() The release also brings basic editing features to LibreOffice for Android, which makes it possible for users of Google’s mobile operating system to tweak their documents on the go. LibreOffice 5 is also available as a 64-bit application for Windows users who have Vista or above installed on their machine. ![]() Importantly, the update also makes LibreOffice compatible with Windows 10 a week after Microsoft launched the update to its operating system. That’s key for a suite that is being marketed to enterprises, which don’t want to see employee productivity lost as a result of buggy software. Contributors to the project have solved more than 25,000 bugs. ![]() In addition to the new features, Italo Vignoli, one of the founders of the Document Foundation (which oversees development of LibreOffice), said that the recent version is the most reliable edition of LibreOffice yet.
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