Blog – Integrators

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...

The Hidden Complexity of Office Security

That’s a nice attack surface, it’d be a shame if someone hacked it… What appears to be straightforward functionality – upload a document, edit together, save changes – actually requires defending against sophisticated attacks across multiple vectors simultaneously. Every document...

Why Office Suites are Hard to Develop

At Collabora Online we say don’t redevelop the wheel, integrate it! The temptation is real, modern browser technologies offer such a rich baseline of functionality why wouldn’t you consider developing your own editor? Rich text editors are abundant, collaborative frameworks...