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Collabora Launches Desktop Office Suite for Linux
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Collabora Productivity is well-known for two of its flagship offerings, Collabora Online, their web-based document editor that powers many organizations, and their LibreOffice-based enterprise suite. That second one just got a makeover and the existing offering was moved to a new name.
They announced Collabora Office for desktop today. It brings their online editor's interface to local desktop apps for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The previous enterprise suite is now called Collabora Office Classic.
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Press Release: Bringing Collabora Online to the Desktop - Collabora Online and Collabora Office
Today, Collabora Productivity is excited to share the first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop that brings the familiar, powerful Collabora Online experience, to run locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open it and feel instantly at home: ODF or DOCX, quick edits or deep dives, a clean, ergonomic interface that helps you get work done without getting in the way.
Collabora Online (COOL) is the company’s open-source solution for document editing and collaboration online and at scale. COOL provides a consistent, discoverable user interface (UI) designed with intuitive toolbars and a tabbed interface, which focuses on the tools most people use every day and enables current users to get their work done without clutter.
Today, a first version of the familiar, powerful Collabora Online UI experience enjoyed by over a hundred million downloaders, and that powers businesses, organisations and government bodies across the world, is available to install and run locally as well as online.
How-To Geek:
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LibreOffice-based Collabora Office gets a reboot on Linux, Windows, and Mac
Collabora Online is a suite of web apps for editing documents, based on LibreOffice and intended to compete with Google Docs. Now, Collabora is coming full circle and releasing new desktop applications for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Even if you're familiar with LibreOffice and OpenOffice, you might not have heard of Collabora, because the company primarily targets businesses and other organizations. Its main project is Collabora Online, a Google Docs-like office suite with the ability to view and edit text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The company also makes Collabora Office for desktop platforms. Both projects are based on code from LibreOffice, and Collabora contributes much of its work back to LibreOffice.
Today, Collabora announced a new suite of office applications for Windows, macOS, and Linux, based on Collabora Online. It has the same simplified layout and Microsoft Office-like design as the company's existing web apps, but with the ability to run locally on your computer without an internet connection.
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Michael Meeks: a new & beautiful Collabora Office
Just a short personal note to say how super excited I am to get our very first release of a new Collabora Office out that brings Collabora Online's lovely UX - created by the whole team to the desktop. You can read all about it in the press release. Please note - this is a first release - we expect all manner of unforseen problems, but still - it edits documents nicely.
The heros behind the scenes
There has been a huge amount of work behind the scenes, and people to say thank-you to. Let me try to get some of them: [...]
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Collabora Office Brings Its Online UI to the Desktop on Linux, Windows, and macOS
Collabora Productivity has announced the release of the first desktop version of its Collabora Office, bringing the full Collabora Online interface to Linux, Windows, and macOS as a native application.
For those who haven’t heard of the app, Collabora Office is an open-source office suite derived from the LibreOffice codebase, offering tools for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and vector graphics.
Until now, its most modern user interface—the one used in Collabora Online (COOL)—was available only in the browser. With this release, that interface is now packaged as a local desktop app running entirely offline.
The new Collabora Office desktop edition mirrors the look and behaviour of Collabora Online, using the same streamlined design built on modern web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, Canvas, CSS, and WebGL.
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Collabora for Desktop Brings Modern UI and New Workflow to LibreOffice - FOSS Force
Although I usually write in a text editor, I’m drafting this piece in the new Collabora Office for desktop app that was released as a preview on Wednesday. What better way to kick the tires than to use it for real work?
The suite is something of a hybrid: LibreOffice’s engine under the hood, wrapped in Collabora’s modern online interface and its opinionated take on how a productivity suite should work.
For the time being, while Collabora isn’t calling this a release candidate, I’d treat it that way. Collabora calls it “the first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop” and contrasts it with its long‑supported “Classic” edition. At the same time, however, they caution that this initial release is not yet supported, and seek feedback from customers who’re evaluating it for deployment in 2026.
In the same statement, they’re recommending Classic for the equivalent of production use for now.