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The Document Foundation (TDF) recently announced the release of LibreOffice 26.8, and while it packs many new features, its highlight is the lack of any AI integration. This is quite the opposite of what Microsoft has been doing with its Office suite, but the tale of the disagreements between these two entities is as old as time itself, so nothing surprising. Now, TDF has explained why it cannot display some fancy charts that Microsoft Office can visualize without a problem.

Also explained at LO's blog, with a less of a clickbait title: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/17/libreoffice-26-8-and-interoperability/

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[–] 314 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Because it's a new extension and it hasn't been implemented yet. Saved you the click.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago

    Dont know if thats a fair summary of the original post. Technically, it answers the clickbait question but not what it was about.

    Microsoft claims its using ISO files, but writes proprietary extensions into them. That's vendored so doesnt break the files but is outside standardization so limited interoperability and has some long term risk.

    Important though, it makes libreoffice look like it doesn't implement the standard which isn't true.

    They're dealing with that by detecting these vendored chuncks and displaying a message block in the document and re-writing it on save to preseve it. it sounds like the wording is something similar to the blog post suggesting its a Microsoft Extension that may be supported in future releases or something but i havent seen it.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    ...and they managed to make a while "article" about that simple info. That's why I stopped consuming all that shit.

    Thanks for summing it up mate.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    I don't mind the articles, what I mind is annoying though.

    This is paragraph two where I reiterate that I am just annoyed by the actual annoying thing.

    This is the third paragraph, where I reiterate that I don't mind articles, again, then remind you that I am annoyed by something else.

    This is the seventh paragraph, down at the bottom of the page, where I finally mention my real annoyance is that they don't make their point until the bottom because they want to get you to read all the repetitive nonsense before hand.

    This is the last paragraph, because I know you will scroll to the bottom looking for the true answer, and I need to hide it, like a reverse of the lead up.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    And you know what's sad? Your bitter sarcasm was fun, while all those "articles", that get stretched to infinity, are not.

    I'm no AI-fan, but this is where they shine: "sum this shit up into 1-2 sentences of actual info, remove useless filler".

    I miss RSS as news. Pure, simple, no nonsense.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    Ah, I would've thought because it's partly saved in the cloud or something. Because we've had some charts torn apart due to shit similar to that.

    They really fucked up basic functionality.

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