LibreOffice 4.4 brings better looks and OpenGL to your presentations

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The new OS X theme is much less colorful than the Windows theme.

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Free and open source office suite LibreOffice was updated today, with its developers calling it “the most beautiful LibreOffice ever.”

LibreOffice is a fork of the OpenOffice suite created in 2010 amid concerns of Oracle’s stewardship of OpenOffice; OpenOffice was subsequently transferred to the Apache Software Foundation. Both projects have subsequently continued as open source alternatives to Microsoft Office.

The highlight of the new release is a far-reaching visual refresh, with menus, toolbars, status bars, and more being updated to look and work better. While LibreOffice retains the traditional menus-and-toolbars approach that Microsoft abandoned in Office 2007, the new version is meant to make those menus and toolbars easier to navigate.