Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty Images Early this year, I ended one of my longest relationships. After more than a decade, I broke up with Microsoft 365. I’d like to say I ditched the office suite for some nuanced reason, like I don’t want Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot because I find it distracting and unhelpful, but really, I just wanted to save some money. And LibreOffice is a free alternative that has everything I need. LibreOffice has roots that trace back to 1985, with the release of the word processing program Star-Writer I. In 2010, the independent, nonprofit German foundation The Document Foundation officially launched the free, open-source software suite LibreOffice
