LibreOffice hits back at critics, says its UI is better than Microsoft Office’s

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For years, users have criticized LibreOffice’s UI and praised Microsoft Office’s ribbon interface as “standard.” LibreOffice thinks those users are simply wrong.

 

David Uzondu

Neowin
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Mar 2, 2026 20:06 EST

One reason people choose Microsoft Office over LibreOffice, apart from the fact that the proprietary OOXML document format it uses is far more popular than LibreOffice’s Open Document Format, is the ribbon interface.

The ribbon interface, introduced way back in Office 2007…