LibreOffice Goes Post-PC!

So, LibreOffice will develop a version for Android, as well as the Web! Forward thinking of them!

Post-PC LibreOffice heads for Web, iOS, Android

“LibreOffice, the project forked from OpenOffice.org, is moving into the modern era with developers working on versions that run in Web browsers and on iOS and Android devices.

The Document Foundation announced the moves today at the LibreOffice Conference, but the work isn’t available yet for ordinary folks to try.
‘These are not products available to end users, but advanced development projects which will become products sometimes in late 2012 or early 2013,’ the foundation said today.

Still, the work shows signs that the project, which never seriously threatened the strength of Microsoft Office, is working to remain modern in a computing industry no longer dominated just by personal computers.

The LibreOffice Online prototype uses the GTK+ software framework, HTML’s new Canvas interface for 2D graphics, and the Web Socket interface for high-speed communications between a browser and a server. Michael Meeks of the Suse Linux project is leading the project, the foundation said.
Another Suse programmer, Tor Lillqvist, is working on versions for Android and iOS tablets with the hope that the software will arrive on smaller devices.

‘The user interface work has yet to start in earnest but the bulk of the code is compiling,’ the foundation said of the work.
The foundation also announced that several French government agencies are switching 500,000 computers, mostly Windows machines, from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice. ‘This increases the Windows installed base of LibreOffice by 5 percent in a single move,’ the foundation said.’