It was just about two months ago that the beta version of LibreOffice 3.6 arrived, but on Wednesday the Document Foundation announced the release of the final version of the office productivity suite.

For decades, Microsoft’s suite of office apps has dominated the productivity space. But where you might once have only upgraded your version of Word, Excel and maybe PowerPoint every several years, ...

LibreOffice has released version 5.0 of its office suite, boasting what the company says is a more useful, intelligently designed user interface. If that sounds a little boring—well, it is.