Blog – Integrators

Why the Best Online Office Doesn’t Try to Store Your Files

Keep your storage. Upgrade your editing. If you’ve ever wondered whether Collabora Online is a “cloud drive”, the simple answer is no. We are focussed on making the best document editor possible, and don’t handle document storage. For document storage, we integrate beautifully with Enterprise File Sync & Share solutions...

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...

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 improvements and a refreshed user experience. But the story didn’t...

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,...

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 becomes a potential weapon. Every user session creates new vulnerability...

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 exist and the fundamental problems of saving, formatting and typing...