I'm moving to a new laptop and I have been surprised to learn that Open Office is no longer an Oracle project.
 
It seems like there are 3 open source versions competing for interest.
 
What would you do?
 
Install from your old Oracle installer? Download one of the three contenders?
 
I know nothing... well I'm pretty good with DAW and Photoshop... but I'm clueless about general purpose office software.
 
Does anyone have any helpful thoughts?
 
Thanks.
 
best regards,
mike

I've been using Libreoffice but only because it seemed to be getting a little more attention, updates, than OpenOffice. A few Linux distros seemed to have made the switch too. That led me to give it a shot.

I don't use any of the features in depth enough to give much of a comparison. Both allow me to write documents and make simple spreadsheets when needed and save in formats compatible with others. You may have greater needs for business and such.

Have you tried Google Docs? Good? Bad?

Best of luck clearing out the 'extras' from your new laptop.

Matt

Thanks for the info!

Not really an advice or the latest version.. I'm still stuck with Open Office 3.3.0 since I'm also using the LilyPond add-on library for some notation editing. Gonna stay with this version for a long time to come, to prevent any incompatibility with the LilyPond integration.

I'm using Open Office 3.4 and really like it. I have Office 2013 and hate it.
 
Nuff said?

Thanks to both of you for the info.
 
I just dug up my old v3.30 installer and used it.
 
Now I am paranoid that the old gen 6 JAVA install is some kind security hole or something.
 
It seems like my browsers don't see it so I guess it's ok?
 

Apparently the clock gadget on my desktop is a huge security threat. I forget when I stopped caring, but  it was sometime last year.

I wouldn't know much about it but earlier in the week I installed Java 10+ to use some form of support interaction for some app I can't even recall at the moment. As soon as I did my Firefox and Chrome installs started throwing warnings... so after I was done I uninstalled that version of JAVA.
 
Oh yes, it was a GoPro firmware updater... that didn't work in any modern browsers anyways... so I ended doing a manual firmware update. So now I have JAVA skittles skattered through my registry.
 
:-S

libre office?

Libre office definitely seems to get more updates and does not seem to differ much from open office