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A Friendlier, Faster Collabora Online – Part II

1,000,000 Data Points for an Update? Check out Part I here TL;DRIn response to user feedback, we’ve made the Collabora Online interface more discoverable and learnable, with extra power on tap: context-aware menus, progressive disclosure, responsive toolbars, presenter controls, and clearer icons, so your team can move faster with less...

An Interview with Banobe: A Culture of Mentorship

Welcome to our interview series, where we chat with the passionate people behind the Collabora Online code. Collabora Online is made possible by the worldwide team, community, contributors and partners. Today, we’re sitting down with Banobe Pascal, Senior Frontend Engineer at Collabora Productivity, to discuss his journey into tech, his...

A Friendlier, Faster Collabora Online – Part I

Our Biggest UI/UX Refresh Yet Check out Part II here TL;DRWe’re shipping some serious UI/UX improvements designed to feel intuitive, reduce menu-diving, and help you move faster. Think contextual toolbars, smart tabs that appear exactly when you need them, responsive layouts that adapt to any window size, presenter controls, and...

Ideals to Entrapment: A UK Government Case Study of How Not to Run IT Infrastructure

We’ve just worked through the CMA’s 637-page Final decision report (and a few appendices!) on the UK cloud infrastructure market. It’s packed with genuinely interesting data and analysis — the kind of numbers you rarely see in public (even if some of the juiciest bits are, inevitably, redacted). This post...

Collabora Productivity Contributions in LibreOffice 25.8

At Collabora Productivity, we’re passionate about open source and delighted to see the steady progress of LibreOffice, the world’s most powerful free office suite. LibreOffice is also a foundation of our enterprise, supported, collaborative browser-based product – Collabora Online. Why We Love LibreOffice LibreOffice is not just software – it’s...

11,780 Commits Later: The Journey from 22.05 to 25.04!

What a Difference 3 Years Makes TL;DRCollabora Online 22.05 has reached end-of-support. In the three years since it was released, we’ve shipped 11,780 commits across the suite, including most recently a major UI/UX refresh (contextual toolbars, smart tabs, responsive toolbars, presenter controls, iconised menus). If you’re still on 22.05, now’s...