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Denmark has abandoned plans to ditch Microsoft Office after technical problems (www.neowin.net)
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[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Back in 2025, the government of Denmark announced that it is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office in favor of open-source alternatives like Linux.

Denmark's reasoning was that it wants to reduce reliance on a U.S. vendor like Microsoft and also not be at the mercy of a volatile Trump administration. Now, it appears that the country has failed in its ambitious endeavor.

Adoption of this European software would have been an important step in Denmark's bid for technological independence from software made by a U.S. firm.

A pilot phase with 38 ministry employees kicked off last year to trial Collabora's suite with Office documents. However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora's performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.

Microsoft must have truly been shitting it. 38 whole people trying out other software.

I mean how hard would it have been for Microsoft to just pay a few of those 38 if any of them had been taking it seriously to begin with.

No benchmarking, and the attempt at switching ended with the elections.

Could it even have been called an attempt?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Microsoft must have truly been shitting it. 38 whole people trying out other software

That's not the point, the problem for Microsoft is that when people begin to realize we don't need Microsoft products because open source solutions work, it will spread like fire.

The attempt was however half assed, and Microsoft never really needed to worry.

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People do already realise that we don't need Microsoft products.

The attempt was however half assed, and Microsoft never really needed to worry.

That's my point.

"Attempting" to ditch Microsoft by relying on 38 people to decide they should use any other product is nonsense. Even if we knew more about the 38 people. How long they tried it for, what other software did they try etc..

It would be very easy for Microsoft to have just paid a fair few of them pennies, for them to say "let's give up".