The latest version of the open-source Office alternative was released earlier this month with deprecated support for older PCs and Windows versions.

Both LibreOffice Community and the LibreOffice Enterprise family of products are based on the LibreOffice Technology platform and are available fpr Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS systems.

That’s the market share Windows 7 still holds, which lacks a free, native editing suite (ignoring Microsoft’s Office Web apps, for the moment). And that’s the market LibreOffice hopes to win.

Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. That’s the highest download ...