Toulouse provided million euro with LIBREOFFICE

Toulouse, the fourth largest city in France, which is located in the southwest of France, announced that it has provided about one million euros, following its transformation into a set of office programs free and open source LibreOffice.

Immigration to Liber Office was one of the key projects of the town in its new digital, and has begun the process of migration to it in 2012, and after that the decision was political in order to shift in 2011, and it took about a year and a half to complete, and from this day 90% of desktop computers (and used by more than 10 thousand people) is now working with LibreOffice.

The story began when Pierre Cohen was elected as mayor of Toulouse in 2008, a person who specializes in information technology and work on policy and digital special focus on open source, him and his colleague Erwane Monthubert are the reason behind the transition of the city of Toulouse to open source in 2011.

Not only Liber Office; but most official Websites of Toulouse are working with free software, such as: toulouse.fr and toulouse-metropole.fr and data.grandtoulouse.fr.

There is a clear trend in European cities to abandon the products owned and move to open source, in the vicinity of Spain Valencia and the Canary Islands abandoned MS Office and this led to save millions, along with many other European cities that we have mentioned in the past; will join the "Cote d'Azur" to the list transgender soon a region in France, in the state of Marseille, as the French capital, police developed its own operating system based on Ubuntu, and the list is endless, and we hope to turn more to the culture of open source and free software.

     

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LibreOffice 4.2 is Available now

LibreOffice 4.2 is Here now

LibreOffice foundation announced the launch of the document LibreOffice 4.2, the new version came with a large number of improvements in performance and scalability exchange files with Microsoft Office package , in addition to special features for professional users and workers in large companies .
Perhaps one of the most important features is the rewrite engine program Calc (for calculation and tables) for better performance in the processes and calculations when importing large Excel files , in addition to the possibility of exploiting the power of GPU hardware to improve the performance calculations.
There are new features in this version which are, the ability to improve the exchange of files with Microsoft Office package and special formula and formula Abiword DOCX files and offers Apple Keynote.
Improvements in the new Windows platform is to facilitate the installation process and the possibility of closing the settings through Active Directory.

LibreOffice 4.2

New icons called " sifr "  designed for the purpose to focus only on work and not distracted .

New start center LibreOffice 4.2

As well as of the new features is the redesigned start screen even take advantage of the available space better.

In addition to a long list of improvements on the structure of the program and that does not appear to the end user only after completion , to see all the new features follow this page.

To download this version from here .

     

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