Nextcloud’s new Euro-Office desktop app lets you edit Microsoft Office and ODF files locally

“As announced on the Nextcloud website, the company has announced the desktop version of the Euro-Office suite. Euro-Office is a fork of OnlyOffice and was first announced in March 2026. Now, it has its own desktop app as it aims to be an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. Connect it to Nextcloud Hub to edit files with your team in real time.” Yes there are LibreOffice and other similar open source alternatives, which work just as well with ODF formats (because some saw the advantages of always using open document formats over a proprietary format), but Euro-Office leverages off its forking from OnlyOffice. This gives Euro-Office a more similar look and feel to MS Office, arguably slightly better compatibility for MS’s formats, and also multi-user collaboration through a Nextcloud server. Of course another advantage is, when the Microsoft cloud goes down for 24 hours or longer, your Nextcloud server and offline documents are all still available. See…

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