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https://windowsforum.com/threads/european-governments-shift-from-microsoft-to-open-source-software-for-digital-sovereignty.370819/ https://windowsforum.com/thre

by frm88 1y ago

https://windowsforum.com/threads/european-governments-shift-from-microsoft-to-open-source-software-for-digital-sovereignty.370819/ https://windowsforum.com/threads/european-governments-shift-... Directly from the Windows Forum. https://www.slashgear.com/1888658/microsoft-office-alternative-denmark-libreoffice-linux-why-move-important-explained/ https://www.slashgear.com/1888658/microsoft-office-alternati... Government's in Denmark, Germany, Spain (on the state level ) A couple more links for companies, but I trust the above is enough? The trend is definitely there and picking up speed. Edit: a couple of days ago there was a post on HN about SAP spending 20b on cloud https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/sap_sovereign_cloud/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/sap_sovereign_cloud/

graemep 1y ago
So over the last 15 years the solid examples of moves that have been committed to are: 1. Denmark’s Ministry for Digital Affairs 2. Two Danish cities 3. One German state 4. The Italian Ministry of defence 5. One Spanish region They also say French education ministry advised schools to move off the free versions of the "free versions" of MS Office 365 and Google Docs. They do not say anything about how many schools followed the advice, or what they moved to (a paid version of the same? another American supplier?). Not much for a whole continent. There will be a lot of resistance to any change. There will be a lot of people like this making the same arguments made here: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/debate_for_microsoft_in_public_sector/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/debate_for_microsoft_... Microsoft has successfully had such decisions reversed in the past: https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Munich-Plans-to-Ditch-Linux-and-Go-Back-to-Windows https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Munich-Plans-to-D...

by frm88 1y ago

graemep 1y ago

So over the last 15 years the solid examples of moves that have been committed to are: 1. Denmark’s Ministry for Digital Affairs 2. Two Danish cities 3. One German state 4. The Italian Ministry of defence 5. One Spanish region They also say French education ministry advised schools to move off the free versions of the "free versions" of MS Office 365 and Google Docs. They do not say anything about how many schools followed the advice, or what they moved to (a paid version of the same? another American supplier?). Not much for a whole continent. There will be a lot of resistance to any change. There will be a lot of people like this making the same arguments made here: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/debate_for_microsoft_in_public_sector/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/debate_for_microsoft_... Microsoft has successfully had such decisions reversed in the past: https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Munich-Plans-to-Ditch-Linux-and-Go-Back-to-Windows https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Munich-Plans-to-D...