Ubuntu chooses LibreOffice over OpenOffice as default office suite.

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After their meeting last week to decide on what will and will not make it in the final cut, Ubuntu developers decided to go with LibreOffice as their default office suite.

This has come as no surprise to Ubuntu followers as Canonical had started packaging it in the daily aplpha releases of Ubuntu 11.04 code named Natty Narwhal. Ubuntu may be the first major Linux distribution to release with LibreOffice when they finally release 11.04 in April. Fedora has also decided to include LibreOffice as their default suite as well in their release 15 due sometime in May.Several other distributions have also announced their plans to have LibreOffice as their default suite.

Oracle has announced their plans for a cloud based suite. One can only wonder if they will continue to support both versions considering they just releases version 3.3 on Jan 26th.

LibreOffice has finally announced their first official release which included numerous new features, the most important being it has much better import and export tools for Microsoft Office 2007 and above OpenXML formats. In addition, LibreOffice can also now import Adobe PDF, Microsoft Works, and Lotus Word Pro documents and has better WordPerfect document import facilities.

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