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From Online to Desktop, Berlin to Bangkok – Here is how your support made a difference

“As we come to the end of another extraordinary year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our customers, partners, community and of course the awesome team at Collabora Productivity. “We’re focused on making Open Source rock by creating beautiful, intuitive tools that work online and off, and...

An Interview with Skyler: Open Culture, Open Community, Open Code

Welcome back 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 Skyler Grey who we previously met during her internship. Since then she has been...

Open Source for Citizens: Denmark’s Bold Experiment

Denmark tried to legislate open source and Big Tech pushed back hard. Nearly 20 years later, open-source solutions are running citizen services in municipalities across the country and even powering the tax authority in Greenland. In this episode, Magenta CEO Morten Kjærsgaard explains Denmark’s “first wave” and “second wave” of...

Press Release: Bringing Collabora Online to the Desktop

This is a text-based press release. View the full release blog here. Same look. Same code. Your files, your device. Nov 26, 2025 at 12.00 pm GMT / 13.00 pm CET / 7.00 am ET / 4.00 am PT Cambridge, November 26, 2025 – Today, Collabora Productivity is excited to...

Collabora Online now available on Desktop

Same look. Same code.Your files, your device. We’re excited to share the first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop – bringing the familiar, powerful Collabora Online experience, to run locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open it and feel instantly at home: ODF or DOCX, quick edits or...

Why Pay for ‘Free’ Software?

Open source is “free”—so why do serious teams pay for it? In this episode, Eloy Crespo breaks down the real value behind paid open-source offerings: support, SLAs, performance, security, compliance, integrations, and long-term sustainability. We cover: If you’ve ever asked or been asked “why pay for free software?”, this is...