However, Vignoli noted ongoing challenges with the existing ISO/IEC 29500 spec, which is the international standard for Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. The suite can read and write formatting in the Office Open XML format, both for Office 2007 and Office 2010, he stated. LibreOffice 3.3 supports the OpenDocument Format, and The Document Foundation is contributing to the development of that standard, Vignoli explained. Some of the new features in version 3.3 of LibreOffice include improvements in scalable vector graphics editing in the Draw program, import filters for Microsoft Works and Lotus Word Pro, and support for 1 million rows in the Calc application. Given time, the two open source suites will begin to fork.

However, the goal of The Document Foundation is to take the productivity suite further, break free from single-company control and introduce new features. 'LibreOffice is still very similar to the upcoming OpenOffice 3.3, as most of the changes are not visible because they pertain to source code cleaning,' Vignoli, stated via e-mail. Consequently, LibreOffice 3.3 will still look very similar to OpenOffice 3.3. Vignoli, who is the president of PLIO ( Italian National Language Project), explained in an e-mail that LibreOffice developers have been cleaning up the code, which extends back 20 years. While Oracle explained in a FAQ that it 'plans to continue developing and supporting OpenOffice as open source' and has rolled out 3.3, it has not contributed funds to the LibreOffice project, according to Italo Vignoli, a spokesperson for The Document Foundation. The split happened not long after Oracle announced the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which had overseen the open source project for a decade or more, basing the code on its StarOffice acquisition.

The developer efforts behind LibreOffice now come under the purview of The Document Foundation, reflecting a split from the open source project back in September. LibreOffice is a suite of productivity applications, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, database, equation editor, and drawing program. The Document Foundation this week released LibreOffice 3.3, calling it the first 'stable release' of the free, open source office suite, whose developers last year split from the effort, now managed by Oracle. Productivity Tools | News LibreOffice 3.3 Breaks from Oracle with New Release

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