Office 2016 Vs LibreOffice

There is some general speculation between LibreOffice 5.3 and Microsoft Office 2016, meaning what is the difference, one’s free the other you have to pay a lot for? Well, there’s a little bit more to it then that, there’s the look, the feel, the placement of the tabs (ribbon), items you click on, the whole nine yards. My intention is to answer some of these questions for you in a side-by-side comparison.

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LibreOffice VS Microsoft Office 2016

Cross-Platform Availability:

LibreOffice: Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

Office 2016: Windows and macOS

Supported versions of MS Windows

LibreOffice: Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008, Server 2012.

Office 2016: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, Server 2012 R2

Supported versions of macOS

LibreOffice: 10.8+

Office 2016: 10.10

Open Source

LibreOffice: Yes

Office 2016: NO

Full integration of all office components

LibreOffice: Supported. From within each office component, files of all other components can be opened and newly created.

Office 2016: Not supported

If you want to learn more about LibreOffice you can go here: http://www.libreoffice.org/

Some more great articles where you can gather more comparisons:

http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/libreoffice-vs.-ms-office-spreadsheets-and-slide-shows-1.html

If you’re wanting to buy Microsoft Office:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/office-home-business-2016/cfq7ttc0k5ff