1. When you move someone toa new computer environment, one of theirfirst questions is....

2. How do I edit documents? 3. Can I open Word docs? 4. Or the dreaded... 5. Can I get Microsoft Office for Linux? 6. Lets face itIt is easier to move people to new OS than to new office suite. 7. Open Office StarOffice, a proprietary office suite August 1991 bought by Sun July 2000 open sourced by Sun Free and open alternative to MicrosoftOffice 8. Open Office January 2010 Oracle buys Sun September 2010 Majority of developers leave Form Document Foundation Forked LibreOffice June 2011 Oracle contributes OpenOffice to the Apache Foundaiton 9. LibreOffice Has become default install on many Linuxdistributions, including Ubuntu 4.0, Major new release just went outFebruary 2013 10. LibreOffice Available not just for Linux, but forWindow and Mac. Can run alongside MS Office Used this before to generate PDFs Can use to have new features if dontwant to update MS Office 11. Are the documents the same as Microsoft Office? 12. LibreOffice Documents are saved in several OD*formats Open format, not just LibreOffice But can save in many know formats Including those used by MS Including newer docx, xlsx, ... 13. Are the screens the same as Microsoft Office? 14. LibreOffice More similar to older MS Office No ribbon The functionality is there, but the screendo look different. Like moving from anyprogram to another NOT as hard as going from MS Office2003 to current version. 15. LibreOffice Text documents Spreadsheets Presentation (like this one) Drawing Database (Access) Not as great as the rest 16. LibreOffice Demo 17. New in 4.0 CMS support via CMIS Includes Sharepoint! 18. Open Office/LibreOffice Some feel the damage is done. Code base will diverge over time. 19. Close 20. Closehttp://www.libreoffice.org/Alberto Santaballa@asantaballahttp://technowati.blogspot.com