Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage of the Minister-President: Independent, sustainable, secure: Schleswig-Holstein will […]
Microsoft pushed for standardized use of their OOXML which was needlessly complicated and purposefully full of bugs when run on LibreOffice so instead of telling the world to stop adopting Microsoft’s shitty doc formats, Munich took the much easier option and followed the herd.
Doesn’t some German municipality do this every couple of years? Switch to linux until MS bribes them and they go back to Windows.
or french! but maybe they actually stick with it? idk
I saw someone talking about how it failed in Munich, so maybe…
Microsoft pushed for standardized use of their OOXML which was needlessly complicated and purposefully full of bugs when run on LibreOffice so instead of telling the world to stop adopting Microsoft’s shitty doc formats, Munich took the much easier option and followed the herd.