Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications

Re:Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word ... by muglug on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:03PM (#50044710)

Also wake me up when there’s a cloud version that works in an even vaguely similar way.

The Office advantage is a suite of apps and integrations with their cloud offerings. That’s their big moat against vibe-coded apps, because few vibe-coders want to maintain a SaaS service for Office files and even fewer CIOs want to commit their company to use that service when Microsoft exists and is proven to work.

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Re:Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word ... by dgellow on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:10PM (#50044787)

Looking at the website they seem to mention a web version: https://getartcraft.com/ (I haven’t tried though)

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Re:Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word ... by unrented7977 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:05PM (#50044732)

> Also wake me up when there’s a cloud version that works in an even vaguely similar way.

NextCloud has had an office suite offering for many years.

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Re:Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word ... by freeone3000 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:21PM (#50044885)

The web versions are passable, but the native versions are non-extant, and the handoff story leaves much to be desired. You can’t, say, have one person editing native and one person editing on web.

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