There's just no comparison in development and speed of response to bug fixing. If you compare the releases since 2015 it appears OpenOffice is still on version 4.1 and has released just 3 bugfix releases in 3 years whilst LibreOffice has released 2 additional major version increments and dozens of bugfix releases for each version: This is particularly important if you need interoperability with MS Office file formats. Zamzar Pro Tip: You can use Microsoft Office, Libre Office or if you own a Mac you can use Pages to open DOC files. (See this article if you want more background info about the split.) IMO LibreOffice may be a better good choice than OpenOffice because development of OpenOffice has slowed, almost halted, since LibreOffice was forked and most developers jumped ship. For example, this shows LibreOffice 6.0.2:

For example, even though set as the default for documents, this is what shows up:īy comparison, LibreOffice has been compatible with Windows 10 since version 5. It looks like OpenOffice 4.1.5 doesn't really understand Windows 10.

Apache openoffice vs libreoffice 2015