Nextcloud and Ionos are promising a modern, open-source office suite for the summer. To achieve this goal, they have forked OnlyOffice.

Nextcloud, Ionos and other partners are developing an open-source office suite under the project name „Euro-Office“ as an alternative to the market-dominant Microsoft Office.

The two partners are not starting from scratch, but have forked the components of OnlyOffice available as open-source code and want to build on them. In the summer, the software is then intended to replace the previous office component Collabora in Nextcloud and the Ionos Nextcloud Workspace. A ‘technical preview’ is already available on GitHub.

While this is a good news, I think they should move from github, you know microslop copilot…

  • Luckyfriend222@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 days ago

    No, but for these OnlyOffice is a viable alternative. @surgarsweat was referring to way advanced features, not something secretaries or HR or accounting will need. I have use OnlyOffice for 6 years now, and have yet to find an Excel need it could not fulfill.

    • sugarsweat@ani.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      I’ve tried OnlyOffice for personal use and it’s just okay. There are some things that I consider basic that I tried to do and either they didn’t work or it got super slow/laggy/crashed.

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      Nah man. Advanced is a relative term. Making formulas in a spreadsheet can be advanced vs just typing stuff in there to make easy layouts.