Blog – Collabora Online

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...

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...

Beyond New Features: The Unsung Work Behind Long-Term Support

When we released Collabora Online 22.05, it marked a major step forward – a new design, LanguageTool integration, and a performance boost across the board. Since then, we’ve delivered new major releases: 23.05, 24.04 and 25.04 each bringing hundreds of...

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...

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...

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...