LibreOffice Plans Ports To iOS, Android, Cloud

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The Register’s Iain Thomson reports that The Document Foundation, developers of my current pick of the Open Source office productivity suites LibreOffice, has demonstrated the software working entirely in a browser for cloud applications, and has announced that it will also port LibreOffice to Android and iOS.

The LibreOffice Online cloud software is built around HTML5 Canvas and the GTK+ framework with JavaScript shims, and was developed by SUSE’s Michael Meeks and RedHat’s Alex Laarson, and The Document Foundation also said that Finnish SUSE developer Tor Lillqvist, who has already ported GIMP to Windows, is working on making LibreOffice available to iOS and Android users. Niether of the new versions will likely be released before 2012 or possibly 2013.

Meanwhile Thompson also reports that France’s government has thrown its support behind the LibreOffice project, specifying the software for all its future Windows systems, and transitioning 500,000 existing Windows users from OpenOffice.

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