Blog – Collabora Office

DigitalPakt Schule 2.0: A once-in-a-decade opportunity to modernise digital learning

Studies carried out in 2013, 2018, and then 2023 show that digital literacy within German schools has been in decline over the past 10 years. Existing approaches are not delivering the desired educational outcomes. Germany’s next major investment in school digitalisation is taking shape. With DigitalPakt Schule 2.0, the German...

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...

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...

A Brief History of File Formats: DOC vs DOCX vs ODF…

Save As? TL;DRWhen you click “Save As” in your favourite word processor, you probably don’t think too much about the file format. Yet file formats like .doc, .docx, and .odt shape how we create and share documents—but they can also create headaches. Here’s a quick guide to their history, differences,...

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...

Collabora Office 25.04 – Powering Productive, Private, and Fast Desktop Editing

While Collabora Online is our flagship product – delivering best-in-class, in-browser collaborative document editing – we know that working offline remains a key requirement for many users and organisations. That’s why we’re excited to announce the latest release of our powerful desktop suite: Collabora Office 25.04. Collabora Office 25.04 shares...