They struck a deal with the Apache Foundation, and Apache OpenOffice was born. By 2011, Oracle Corporation was looking to offload the open-source project. In 2010, Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems. There were many competing office suites-from companies such as Lotus, IBM, and Corel-but none came close to repeating the success of Microsoft Office. It was released in November 1990 and included Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint. The package office suite that rose to dominance was Microsoft Office. Costing less than the sum total of a mixed set of similar packages, the office suite took off and never looked back. Instead of a set of unrelated standalone packages, an office productivity suite had a consistent look and feel, with easy integration between those packages. Office productivity suites completely changed the software landscape for the corporate PC. Notably, Microsoft even made a word processor for kids called Creative Writer. The dominant programs at the peak of the pre-suite period were the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, the WordPerfect word processor, and the dBase database program. Gone were the days of running a disparate collection of software on your desktop. These bundled the most-used types of office software into coherent families of software.
The office suite came hot on the heels of the success of the earliest word processor and spreadsheet programs. But can a free product go toe-to-toe with one of Microsoft’s flagship applications? How Office Productivity Suites Began That may be a smart move to get ODF spec on the same level as OOXML as there would be even less reason to use OOXML in the future.LibreOffice is the premier open-source office suite, and it’s the default office package on most Linux distributions. So I guess interop between recent MS Office versions and LO should be better when using ODF.Įdit: From what I see that has been added to LO recently for interop with MS Office formats this is then also added at the same time to the "ODF 1.3 Extended" spec which will be used to drive the ODF 1.4 spec (no timefrime etc yet). Currenly LO and MS both have implemented most of the ODF 1.3 specs already while OO still uses 1.2. Then also LO (so nor does OO) did not fully implement ODF 1.2. Microsoft has been working actively on those specs amongst with TDF. This has been mostly fixed in the ODF 1.3 spec as that was one of the main goals defining it. That is not the whole story ODF 1.2 does have some specifications which leave room for interpretation and for that reason are implemented differently (that may have been done on purpose) in MS Office vs OpenOffice/LibreOffice. odt, but MS, as always, has departed from the international standards"
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