OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

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Hello people, I'm soon going to need an office suit (for school and stuff), but it turns out all this old beater has is Office XP, which is, well... too freaking old.

Since I don't have the money for a newer Office, I've been looking at these two options. I know they are very similar, since one is a fork of of the other, but I'd actually like to know which should I pick, i.e: which has the most features/least compatibility issues.

I've searched the web, but all I find are blog posts about the implications of the fork and such stuff.
 
I use OpenOffice. I haven't tried Libre, so I'm not sure about the differences. I find OpenOffice perfectly okay, but compared to MS Word (even '05); Word is way better!
 
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Hello people, I'm soon going to need an office suit (for school and stuff), but it turns out all this old beater has is Office XP, which is, well... too freaking old.
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If it can do the job, who really cares how old it is?

Not that I have a whole lot of use for Office, but I suspect that for what I do Office '97 would work just fine.
 
I use Office 2003.

No ribbon UI, saves in the most common requested format(.doc), loads quickly, low RAM usage.
 
What's wrong with Office XP? It does 100% of what you actually need it to do I've done hyperlinked spreadsheets with complex multi-layer statistical calculations in XP format. Hell, I have to, because not everyone in our technical group has a spreadsheet program that understands XLSX.

Office XP is better in some ways than the new MS Office, which has a simplified interface that makes finding some of the more esoteric Office functions maddeningly finicky. If you go for OpenOffice, some of the shortcuts are different and many of the standard features from MSOffice are missing.

It's perfectly usable, as it's what I'm using now, but I would NOT recommend switching merely for the sake of switching. Hell, I'd be happy to go back to MSOffice XP if it were available.
 
I put openoffice out at a lot of sites. People somehow think office is included with the purchase of a new machine. So they all come with open office. I have not tried libre office.

I still use office 2003 on my main work machine. I'm not a fan of the ribbon.

If office xp will fit the need of what you need to do, then stick with it.
 
Well, I would use Office XP if it weren't because most teachers at my school request the Office Open XML formats (I know, right? :indiff:). I know OpenOffice can pull it off with certain plugins, not sure at all about LibreOffice.

I've also heard something about the Calligra Suite being very complete, but I haven't used the thing yet. Has anyone tried Calligra here?
 
I use MS Office at work because that's what we use. But I'm a broke SOB so when the "trial" for MS Office ended at home I just downloaded Open Office. Works fine for me.
 
I have LibreOffice on the desktop running Ubuntu, and on the laptop running Windows 7 I have OpenOffice (and I'm a very lazy bum, I didn't even use the trial period, just removed the program altogether.)

I admit I have a bit of a hate complex towards Microsoft products, and it's mainly because of how cheaply some of the products are made.
 

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