FOSSDLE PieFedDanish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
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cosmicrookieA bit misleading title. Half of the relatively small digitization ministry will be testing it during the summer, to evaluate if its an option. If it goes well, the rest will follow. If not, they will switch back to Microsoft
ByteMeAlso, originally the media made it sound like they switched to Linux as well
Some articles even mention the whole country switching to it so there are some very optimistic headlines being fired at optimistic readers at the moment.
That said, Denmark pays huges amount to Microsoft for very little. I work in a nursing home where they use Microsoft Teams only as a file hosting system for word documents. Its a huge mess of people making files, to describe anything and then they tell you that you can find instructions in MS teams..
Funny how one of our ministries saying they were doing a small test run of replacing Office 365 turned into a thousand terrible blog posts with misleading titles like "Denmark is ditching Microsoft!"
In Danish we have a saying from H. C. Anderson "En fjer kan blive til fem høns" (literally "One feather can become 5 chickens") about how a retelling of a retelling of a retelling of something skews it so much, because of mistakes or hyperbole, that it becomes unrecognizable. Like Chinese whispers or a game of Telephone.
Let them know about Onlyoffixe too!!
Well, depends of what they need, OnlyOffice has a somewhat better compatibility with some MS Office files, but less apps than Libre/OpenOffice. Anyway there are not so much differences between this three suites, all pretty valid FOSS alternatives to MS Office.
We know https://feddit.org/post/15476792
Reposts are better than no posts. Plus, plenty of people could have missed the original.
not when it's been reposted atl once every week
The reposts are part of a conspiracy to distract you from the real news which is that the Danish Ministry of Digitalization is switching to LibreOffice