Back in 2011, OpenOfficeThe code was donated to the Apache Software Foundation, and unfortunately OpenOffice has not flourished over the past decade. Apache OpenOffice has seen very few new features being developed for a long time since then, and not only that, but mostly struggling to maintain and patch security holes.
However, the OpenOffice brand still has its influence, and users are usually searching for open source office software orMicrosoftYou will find it when free alternatives to Office etc.
The Apache Software Foundation announced Tuesday that there have now been more than 333 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice since they took over the open source office suite in 2011. This number doesn’t take into account mirror downloads from SourceForge, so the actual number will be higher.
Interestingly, figures published on the Apache.org blog show that, as a cross-platform suite,WindowsThere are 297 million downloads by users, 31 million downloads by macOS users, and only 4.7 million downloads by Linux users… It can only be said that Linux users have experienced better”educate”, they opted to go straight to the modern and more maintained LibreOffice.