Intel Supporting MS Office's Rival LibreOffice

After Facebook, it's Intel which has announced its support for the Open Source platform. The company has started distributing the open source LibreOffice suite for Windows from its application store, Intel AppUp.
LibreOffice, the popular open source alternate to MS Office, has received immense support from Linux distributors like openSUSE and Ubuntu but never had any major corporate supporter on the Windows side. According to the Document Foundation (TDF), the newly raised association behind LibreOffice, “LibreOffice for Windows from SUSE is available in Intel AppUp Center as a special, five-language version featuring English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. As a validated Intel AppUp Center app, LibreOffice for Windows from SUSE features a new, smooth, silent installation flow and improved un-installation cleanup.”

It's quite a long time since LibreOffice has been available on Windows, as well as Linux and Mac OS X. But what it interesting to note is the fact that this time Microsoft's long time partner Intel is supporting Microsoft Office's biggest rival.
As far as cloud computing goes, Google Docs has undoubtedly emerged as the biggest threat to Microsoft Office but in the desktop department LibreOffice is the main competition for Microsoft.
On the other hand, it's not just that Intel has placed a LibreOffice download link on their website but the chip maker intends to improve the open source software's code base as well.
Apart from this, Intel has also joined The Document Foundation--a move which clearly shows that Intel is also financially supporting this rival to Microsoft Office.