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Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
- himata4113 7mo agoHas it been hugged this easily? Doesn't load for me.
- rrr_oh_man 7mo agoCheap purchased PR slop with fake articles and no product. e.g.: - https://hostingdiscussion.com/news/european-cloud-workspace-office-eu-emerges-as-sovereign-alternative-to-big-tech-suites/ https://hostingdiscussion.com/news/european-cloud-workspace-... - https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empresas/amp/plataforma-office-eu-lancada-como-alternativa-europeia-ao-microsoft-office https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empresas/amp/plataforma-offi... And it seems to be repackaged Collabora (~LibreOffice): https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/office_eu_suite/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/office_eu_suite/
- gzread 7mo agoI need to learn this skill of producing nothing and pretending I have. It seems to be very rewarding, financially speaking.
- joe_mamba 7mo agoYou need to know the right people in Brussels/Washington, to milk and scam the taxpayer in your favor.
- MattGaiser 7mo agoReally, just lack shame and sell something you do not have and bet that you can get it before anyone really presses too hard. It's an incredible thing to see.
- gzread 7mo agoBut I'd think I'd get in trouble for not delivering it
- canyp 7mo agoShould have gotten an MBA instead of a BS.
- phatskat 7mo agoBut I thought getting an MBA _was_ BS!
- nradov 7mo agoIn general getting EU grants is very lucrative. It takes some relationships and writing skill but in the end you never have to deliver any results (beyond maybe a report that no one ever reads)
- kzrdude 7mo agoThey list a bunch of companies under the heading "All these companies work with the same technology" on their landing page. I think it's quite scummy, and very non-impressive when you see it.
- storus 7mo agoLibreOffice came from OpenOffice which was StarOffice which was developed in Germany.
- dabedee 7mo agoI laud the attempt and I think it's important there are more projects that try to compete with their American counterparts. I do want to gently note that if your entire pitch is "we are a bold, independent European alternative that liberates you from the hegemony of the established American players," maybe don't name your product the exact same thing as the product you're replacing? "Office." They named it "Office."
- graypegg 7mo agoIt also possibly sets a false expectation of perfect compatibility… you can imagine bureaucrats trying to figure out if a file needs to be opened in Office or Office (new)
- Avicebron 7mo agoConsidering that for the average office worker I know switching from outlook to outlook (new) is a major hurdle within the same ecosystem, I can only imagine what they were thinking coming up with a name.
- enceladus06 7mo agoThat is not even broaching the sacred domain-specific excel macros which will 100% break when you try and run in this program.
- Topfi 7mo agoThat is a very fair point, there are quite a few businesses and government agencies where I live, which are very deeply entrenched in very complex, decade spanning VBA based workflows that need absolute and fully compatibility before a switch away from "MS 365 Copilot" could even be considered and the name may give false expectations. Now, I really, very much dislike it that often discussions on sites like this one can be utterly derailed by someone bringing up an utterly unrelated overhyped topic, so feel free to dismiss this, but I could honestly see LLMs providing a potential path to smoothing out such issues. Some model have gotten rather robust when it comes to making targeted changes to pre-existing Excel files dating back to before I was using a computer, including handling very specific modifications to ancient macros across multiple sheets. Perhaps, this could be leveraged to some extent, though being honest and trying not to overhype, I suspect that similar to those planning to use agentic coding to rewrite decades old, tested, crucially important COBOL code in a more modern language, there are likely many edge cases that will be hard to properly cover and if such a solution isn't both absolutely reliable and seamless to the users, large scale adoption by such entities will likely be impossible in the short term.
- PowerElectronix 7mo agoThe EU tech ecosystem is sadder every day
- gizajob 7mo agoLaunching now! Join waitinglist. For a web app of Google docs.
- throw310822 7mo agoThe problem is that every attempt at European alternatives is taken at the government level (of some member country or of the EU) and immediately announced with great fanfare as the European comeback. The pathetic thing about it is that everybody who isn't totally clueless sees how utterly inadequate these attempts are, given the political involvement, the microscopic resources invested, the lack of incentives from competition, and the general hostility of European legislation and bureaucracy. And yet politicians keep making fools of themselves announcing this or that EU answer to American tech.
- the-tml 7mo agoThis is not "government level" in any way. It's a small company nobody has ever heard of.
- flumpcakes 7mo agoCare to expand further?
- heraldgeezer 7mo agoJust click the link. You don't see how pathetic this rebrand of Nextcloud is? It is practically a scam.
- GavinAnderegg 7mo agoFrom the FAQ on the homepage: What is Office EU? Office EU is a European productivity suite for files, email, calendars, documents and calls, built on Nextcloud Hub. It brings Files, Talk, Groupware and Office together in one platform. Looking through the Office EU screenshots, they do look like Nextcloud Groupware/Files/Office with the logo changed. Mostly adding this because I wasn't sure if it was a new product or not based on a first glance over the Office EU site. Nextcloud offers recommendations for providers on their site, most of which are in the EU [0]. The Office EU website seems to be new since around January of this year [1]. More managed hosts for Nextcloud is a good thing in my book, but I'd be a bit wary to host my stuff with a brand new provider. [0]: https://nextcloud.com/providers/ https://nextcloud.com/providers/ [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20260116234614/https://office.eu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260116234614/https://office.eu...
- ZunarJ5 7mo ago> Yes. Office EU provides a desktop sync client for Windows, macOS and Linux so files stay up to date across devices. Regardless of the Nextcloud issue. It's probably just a web wrapper then.
- stavros 7mo agoHopefully it is whitelabeled Nextcloud, and all the improvements can go back to the Nextcloud core. That would be a great use of my tax money.
- Kuraj 7mo agoI agree. We don't need to reinvent the wheel.
- dzhiurgis 7mo agoTouche
- Confiks 7mo agoYou say "tax money", but this project isn't a government project or using public money at all. As for contributing back to Nextcloud: there is a long list of Nextcloud partners [1] that contractually obligated themselves to contribute back to Nextcloud for every user they onboard. The company in this article has not. [1] https://nextcloud.com/partners/ https://nextcloud.com/partners/
- sgt 7mo ago> Office EU is a complete cloud-based office suite Issue is.. if you are a traditional MS Office "poweruser", the last thing you want to do is spend your days in a web browser. These apps should also be available as native apps, similar to MS Word, Excel, Pages, Keynote, etc.
- herbst 7mo agoThis is probably not the target audience. Most people just need to write occasional letters and sign some files.
- flumpcakes 7mo agoThe vast majority of office use at my work is in the browsers because the files are stored in Sharepoint. It seems to work well enough for basic needs (no macros and fairly simple formulas in excel etc.) I have a non-technical friend in finance who uses the Desktop versions of Excel for most of their work and they say it crashes nearly every day losing work.
- sgt 7mo agoExcel is pretty stable.. I guess it could be those specific sheets doing something odd.
- flumpcakes 7mo agoI think it's a factor of things, but Excel isn't as stable as it once was. My friends spreadsheets include: - Row count ~100k - Column count ~1k - The usual vlookup, etc. formulae. - Oracle extensions that sync tables to databases in the cloud.
- pjmlp 7mo agoJust like in many other cases, in-proc extensions might be easier to implement, or have lower resource demands than OS IPC, but than it has such unpleasent experiences, I bet those Oracle extensions in C, C++, COM, are to blame.
- tiderpenger 7mo agoMicrosoft draws over 3 billion dollars out of Norway yearly. We are many that want this number much, much closer to zero. At it's small steps like this that makes it possible.
- gizajob 7mo agoYour sovereign wealth fund probably makes 3 billion dollars out of Microsoft yearly.
- kivle 7mo agoThe fund owns about 1.26% of Microsoft (data seems to be for 2025), which according to Gemini is about $37.5b in today's value. Stock value of Microsoft changed about 5.23% over the last year, which comes down to about $1.96b, so you're not far off... https://www.nbim.no/no/investeringene/investeringsoversikt/#/2025-12-31/0/5p1preaqdgbt https://www.nbim.no/no/investeringene/investeringsoversikt/#...
- gizajob 7mo agoWhat about including dividends? The price of MSFT also dropped like a stone recently. But anyway if you guys could stop forcing Microsoft on everybody that would be great.
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- deaux 7mo agoThe US is more than free to dissuade the fund from investing in Microsoft, and I don't think the Norwegian public would mind it being invested elsewhere.
- oever 7mo agoDo you have a reference for that number? It's hard to get numbers on what countries pay to Microsoft. The Dutch parliament has repeatedly asked and has not gotten numbers even though there is a whole agency since 2014 (https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/overzicht-van-alle-onderwerpen/slm-rijk/slm-mga/ https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/overzicht-van-alle-onderwerp...) specifically for giving Microsoft preferential treatment in procurement.
- worik 7mo agoThis has been a longtime coming, it is not unique but it is still significant The enormous momentum of the installed base and occupied headspace of Microsoft systems made them lazy and complacent decades ago. They have been peddling insecure unreliable software for a generation now, and believed their was no viable threat. It took too long, but finally. Trump and his mad bad actions are good for the Europeans like a heart attack is good for your health
- nradov 7mo agoGood luck to them, but without an equivalent to Microsoft Access it's not really a replacement for Microsoft Office for many power users. (Yes, I'm aware that Access has some weaknesses as a database but for quick-and-dirty custom applications it's still the easiest platform out there.)
- flumpcakes 7mo agoIn 25 years I have never seen anyone use Microsoft Access in earnest. For the overwhelming majority of users I do not think this is an issue. The last time I used it was when studying for CLAiT Plus.
- pjmlp 7mo agoWe used it at Altitude Software, as one of the possible database backends for our platform, there were indee enough customers that it was a requirement to also support it on our ODBC configuration. During the MS-DOS => Windows transitions, some folks moved from doing xBase development into VB, or Access, instead of CA Objects or FoxPro.
- rsynnott 7mo ago... Wait, people are still using MS Access?! I didn't even realise that there was still a current version. > but for quick-and-dirty custom applications it's still the easiest platform out there. So I'm a big LLM sceptic. Seriously, you can check. But if there is one thing that LLMs _are_ quite good at, it is the sort of quick and (very) dirty custom CRUD apps traditionally produced with Access.
- davidpaulyoung 7mo agoYou can have hosted Nextcloud on Hetzner, with Headscale, email server, Vaultwarden, and Wordpress on European infrastructure (Hetzner) individually installed just for you from Federated Computer today for $19/month unlimited user accounts. I use it every day. Human support, too...!
- gzread 7mo agoSure you can, you can also pirate Microsoft Office (the versions prior to the shittening). But companies don't want that, they just want to pay a few bucks per user per month to make it someone else's problem. Microsoft offers this service. Google offers this service. FOSS does not. That's also why always-connected SaaS is winning - it makes more things the vendor's problem instead of the customer's problem. Provided that you maintain a good relationship with your vendor. A metal machining company doesn't want to hire an employee to manage a bespoke computer system, or even to replace computer parts or install Ethernet cabling in the building. They might do it, if it's the only good option, but they prefer it to just work without effort, even for more money.
- aprilnya 7mo agoUmm.. this feels like a better suited comment for another part of this thread. Federated Computer appears to offer the exact same service as OfficeEU - a SaaS/managed Nextcloud
- dlev_pika 7mo agoAs an American, I remember when none of this was an issue a mere 18 months ago, and it’s crazy to think we did this to ourselves. This is all so unnecessary… and dumb, very dumb.
- int_19h 7mo agoSome European countries were trying to reduce their dependency on proprietary American software for decades now, with varying success. The recent events have likely accelerated this trajectory, but it is not new.
- Muromec 7mo agoIt was. The recent 18 months gave it more momentum of course, but it didn't just appear out of nowhere. From: https://amsterdam.raadsinformatie.nl/document/16563456/1/Meerjarenstrategie+Digitale+Autonomie+2026-2030?connection_type=1&connection_id=10027441 https://amsterdam.raadsinformatie.nl/document/16563456/1/Mee... (which is not the Hague, but Amsterdam) >1.1 Introductie >Op 28 maart 2024 heeft de gemeenteraad van Amsterdam unaniem ingestemd met het (gewijzigde) initiatiefvoorstel Amsterdam Digitaal Onafhankelijk van raadslid IJmker English: >On March 28, 2024, the Amsterdam City Council unanimously approved the (amended) initiative proposal Amsterdam Digital Independent by Council Member IJmker
- worksonmine 7mo agoI can't find any info about the people behind it. The branding, mentioning "The Hague" and the rest of the landing page seems to try really hard to fool me into believing this is official from the European Union, I wouldn't trust them with anything, just get Libreoffice. Be careful.
- BitsAndObjects 7mo agoAm I being dumb: they say it's "open-source software" but I can't actually find a link (or links) to the software / source anywhere on the office.eu website??
- BitsAndObjects 7mo agoOh, there's some reference to NextCloud - so is this just a white-labeled NextCloud? Or a straight-up AI generated rip-off / resell?
- BitsAndObjects 7mo ago>"Office EU is a European productivity suite for files, email, calendars, documents and calls, built on Nextcloud Hub. It brings Files, Talk, Groupware and Office together in one platform." https://office.eu/faq https://office.eu/faq Of which, Files, Talk, Office and Groupware are all just NextCloud services where they've swapped "Nextcloud" for "EU" in the name. >"Office.EU is a service offered and operated by EUfforic Europe BV, registered with the Dutch chamber of commerce under registration number 98746243 and having its address at Dr. Kuyperstraat 10-A at (2514 BB) The Hague, the Netherlands." I wouldn't personally trust a company that appears to be claiming another company's services as some revolutionary new thing, when it's just reselling them. And it was registered in November 2025 with no other information available - why would anyone gamble all their company data on a company that has appeared as quickly as it might disappear? Who are the owners/founders even? Anyway, this was a waste of time.
- oever 7mo agoNextcloud does not provide hosting, only 3rd level support. So any commercial hosting of Nextcloud will be done by other companies. There are many companies to choose from. https://nextcloud.com/partners/ https://nextcloud.com/partners/ Personally, I would only choose companies that are listed as a partner because then I can see what level of support they buy from Nextcloud.
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- Void_ 7mo agoAre we gonna talk about that cookie banner? https://cleanshot.com/share/cDQ5RMkP https://cleanshot.com/share/cDQ5RMkP
- SlackingOff123 7mo agoLooks like a reasonable cookie banner to me: Deny (all), Custom selection and Accept all. It even works perfectly with Consent-O-Matic extension.
- Xylakant 7mo agoIt's a perfectly not reasonable cookie banner. If you click on Details, you can see that they're not using marketing, statistics, or any other kind of cookies apart from the technically necessary. Which is great, but also means that they don't even need a banner. It could just go away.
- gardenhedge 7mo agowhat about it?
- lashull 7mo agowtf!? I enter my email address for an invitation, receive a link to an est. 2 pages form for answering a shit load of unrelated question, like org name, org country, last summer vacation, first time I got pimples... Is this a request to become the next pope?
- toinewx 7mo agothis whole thing is a bait
- bradleybuda 7mo agoXHR requests to cookiebot.com -> dig cookiebot.com -> 141.193.213.20 -> ipinfo.io -> Austin, TX
- rsynnott 7mo agoThat's a cloudflare anycast address; your traffic won't be routed through Texas unless you're in or near Texas. Cookiebot would appear to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usercentrics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usercentrics
- dlcarrier 7mo agoIsn't Proton Docs European? Not that any European government would support them, because they don't spy on their users.
- p4bl0 7mo agoIt's always a good thing to have multiple players and I hope we can have actual EU-based alternatives, but I feel like this project, simply being a rebranded NextCloud as far as I can tell, is less interesting than La Suite numérique [1] developed by the French government or CryptPad [2] developed by XWiki, a French company based in Paris. [1] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ [2] https://cryptpad.org/ https://cryptpad.org/
- ekjhgkejhgk 7mo agoCryptpad is great.
- jarym 7mo agoOffices are going out of fashion.. why name a product Office in 2026?
- bcye 7mo agoWeird product page, why would you put the number of member states and residents Europe has in your „feature“ section?
- belst 7mo agoThis seems to be one guy who repackages nextcloud and markets it as the "european alternative" as a quick cashcrab without any own developments
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- KellyCriterion 7mo agoHas anybody tested the Email client? Is it somehow on par with Outlook (Desktop/install version)?
- hmstx 7mo agoWell that's a pompous headline from the author's PR dept. "Europe" as in, "The European Union", or just some marketing trick based on making you believe it is to give it more weight? I'm european and can still easily confuse the "European Union" and "Europe the general area" when context is lacking, it's not a big stretch of the imagination for me that people _anywhere_ could construe this as "official" as well. All that it looks like is backed by some emanation from the city of The Hague. No mention of the EU proper. It's european owned and backed, sure, but not EU owned and backed. Tsh, marketing. (see Bill Hicks on marketing).
- pentagrama 7mo agoAbout pricing [1]: > What are the pricing plans? > Office EU will offer simple plans for individuals and teams. Pricing will be competitive and designed to be easy to understand. We will publish full plan details closer to launch. > Will there be a free plan? > A free plan is planned after launch. It will be a good way to try Office EU before committing. Exact limits and features will be shared when it is ready. [1] https://office.eu/faq https://office.eu/faq
- haunter 7mo ago"Is Office.EU a scam?" https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/officeeu-eng/ https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/officeeu-eng/
- ramon156 7mo agoDo you need this many wirds? What did the intro even add for the person who wants a y/n?
- Confiks 7mo agoThis is just a Nextcloud rebrand with a confusing domain name. It claims "Core is [100%] Open Source" but no source code is provided beyond what's already available in the upstream projects, and it's unlikely that there will be (as this happens a lot). It's a one-man project without a track record or certifications based out of a shared office space [1]. And don't get me wrong: there's nothing wrong with starting a business rebranding Nextcloud and keeping your development closed source, as long as you're honest about that, which this initiative is not. If you're looking for a Nextcloud hoster, there's a long list of partners here [2] that have contractually obligated themselves to contribute back to Nextcloud for every user they onboard. [1] https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/officeeu-eng/ https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/officeeu-eng/ [2] https://nextcloud.com/partners/ https://nextcloud.com/partners/
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- F3nd0 7mo ago> there's nothing wrong with starting a business rebranding Nextcloud and keeping your development closed source, as long as you're honest about that, which this initiative is not. I thought Nextcloud was released under the AGPL, making this very much not okay by default. So either I misunderstood something or Office.eu got a permission to make non-free modifications? (Going by what you said; I have not dived into this.)
- winstonwinston 7mo agoIf it just says that it is partly based on Nextcloud, that does not imply they modified Nextcloud code at all. Other parts of the platform could be based on some other code, even closed one.
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- CrzyLngPwd 7mo agoIf the EU is successful in this endeavour, then the US will lean on them to abandon it.
- duxup 7mo agoI'm inclined to agree that this should have had a different name, gonna be different come up with a good name. As for open source as they claim ... can't find the code or a link to it on their site. So far this smells like a lot of intent but I'm not sure what this is.
- crudbug 7mo agoSome commercial alternatives to MS Office: https://www.wordperfect.com/en/ https://www.wordperfect.com/en/ https://www.softmaker.com/en/ https://www.softmaker.com/en/ https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite https://www.group-office.com/ https://www.group-office.com/ https://www.icewarp.com/ https://www.icewarp.com/ https://www.bitrix24.com/ https://www.bitrix24.com/ https://fengoffice.com/ https://fengoffice.com/ https://www.hancomdocs.com/en/ https://www.hancomdocs.com/en/ https://www.larksuite.com/en_sg/ https://www.larksuite.com/en_sg/ https://www.polarisoffice.com/en/ https://www.polarisoffice.com/en/
- niemandhier 7mo agoI prefer this : https://www.opendesk.eu/ https://www.opendesk.eu/ What we need to get independent is the public infrastructures. That has nothing to do with current tensions between Europe and the US. It’s just unbecoming of a nation to depend in its core on the good will of another.
- thih9 7mo agoIs this by some random company that happens to rent an address in Hague? And even that is uncertain because there's no actual address except a vague OSM pin. And no company name either. This seems untrustworthy, double so for a product that claims to prioritize transparency. > Our headquarters are in The Netherlands (The Hague). Contact us to book a meeting or ask any questions. source: https://office.eu/contact https://office.eu/contact
- heraldgeezer 7mo agoYea the FAQ does not give a good impression. "The Premium and Ultimate plans offer EU Talk for larger meetings up to ● users."
- dizhn 7mo agoDefault Talk copies all streams to all users meaning it can handle a small numbers of concurrent users. There's some sort of a broadcast (plus Stun, nat etc) solution that allows it to scale. They are probably charging for that.
- stephen_g 7mo agoSounds like when there was that news of "Europe is creating a social media website called 'W' to compete with X" and it just turned out it was some random tiny company.
- wolvesechoes 7mo agoEvery time you hear about European alternative you can expect similar scenario.
- maxidorius 7mo agoIn their Privacy Policy [1], Section 8: > Office.EU is a service offered and operated by EUfforic Europe BV, registered with the Dutch chamber of commerce under registration number 98746243 and having its address at Dr. Kuyperstraat 10-A at (2514 BB) The Hague, the Netherlands. [1]: Link to PDF, no HTML version: https://hel1.your-objectstorage.com/officeeuaa001/officeeu-privacy-policy-v01.pdf https://hel1.your-objectstorage.com/officeeuaa001/officeeu-p...
- indubioprorubik 7mo agoThe problem is that the Oslo world is deeply encoded into the DNA of the European union and its elites. The very goal of "restoring" the old world is what they have in mind. The moment that goal seems to even just return as a hallucination, they will drop all of these initiatives and defect. Everyone knows, so nobody even tries to get something real built. With the university who trained these politicians, with the institutions who shaped them, with these politicians who created this multi-crisis - believing everyone out there was invested in a stable world as they were- a independent Europe is not possible. They just have to much hackable surface, to much API, they will crawl before any hacker offering them a way "back out" with the decades to come.
- 8note 7mo agowhy isnt the EU sovereign office platform just libreoffice contributions? rework it into a web friendly version. what requirements does the EU have for not using libre office?
- heraldgeezer 7mo agoTo preface, I am Swedish. But I work in IT and Office 365 is not "Office suite online" anymore. Office 365 started with running Exchange in the cloud by MS as it is a PITA for IT. That was basically it. Office 365 is now: - Office suite, both online and desktop apps (Vital for full feature Excel) - Entra for Users, Groups and Policy, SSO, conditional access, MFA (Entra is actually Azure AD, not sure if this is still the case but all Office 365 get an Azure AD tenant it runs on) - Device management via Intune, that is policy, push apps/installs, reinstalls, Autopilot, run scripts etc on machines, device state config - File sharing with Sharepoint & Teams & personal Onedrive (this also adds endpoint backup) - Teams - chat, video, workspace - We live in Teams at work. - Email (that includes admin, extensive admin) - DLP - Data loss prevention - The power suite where users & admins can make their own apps + MS Graph API for all this Oh, and it comes with Copilot chat baked in (GTP 5.3 based now) with enterprise controls. At a big company you can have people ONLY working on the Entra part to secure user accounts. Or people ONLY on Intune to setup and manage PCs, policy etc. Office 365 is a beast and I will argue GSuite does not match up as companies basically HAVE to buy Slack on the side to get parity. Also sysadmin on GSuite sucks. The link actually made me laugh but also sad. It is frankly embarrassing. We in EU can do tech Spotify, Klarna, Lovable, Mojang, Dice, Arelion, Ericsson and this is only in Sweden. Look at a 4G network, it is insanley complex. So yea not sure what the solution is. But this is too little too late. It should have started in 2008 maybe they would have a chance. It is also sheer numbers. MS is massive and Azure/O365 is their cash cow now. They make sure it is damn good.
- pjmlp 7mo agoMany businesses don't need 100% of Office 365, in fact I will assert that if they aren't listed on DAX, or similar indexes, they most likely only need Word and Excel.
- heraldgeezer 7mo agoVery dependant on what type of business you mean. Sure you can have your fileshare on a personal google drive och do chats over Whatsapp if you want.
- gardenhedge 7mo ago> You will be able to choose. Office EU can connect to different AI providers through APIs, such as ChatGPT, Mistral, and others Seems a misstep to list an American AI provider first...
- dgxyz 7mo agoYeah no. I want entirely offline stuff that runs within equipment I completely control going forwards. One thing this whole current shit show says is geopolitics are too unstable to put your data into any system or legal jurisdiction you don’t directly control.
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- wolvoleo 7mo agoI wonder about their pricing. I was also looking at infomaniak.com . I'm trying to move away from MS 365 myself, both because of Trump, AI but also because Microsoft keeps making it work worse and worse with Firefox. The latest thing (as of a day or 2 ago) is every 30 minutes redirecting my outlook web to the "You just signed out of your account" page :( So I have to sign back in every time I use it, it used to simply stay open (and no settings were changed on the backend). How I hate these guys. The most annoying thing is that none of this happens when I set my user agent to MS Edge on Windows. So they are purposefully breaking this.
- amelius 7mo agoTrademark lawyers are raising their eyebrows.
- AFF87 7mo agoHas there been a committee to decide on a committee to put forward a white paper for another committee?
- gherkinnn 7mo agoGoing on a wild tangent here, why do these office suite companies stick to MS Word's principle of emulating paper and typewriters? Or rather, why do people kling to that metaphor? Surely, Notion showed us that there are better working models.
- robowo 7mo agoI always find it sad that they just seem to copy the crap Microsoft does. When I see the ribbon I am already out.
- jruz 7mo agoPretty scammy name and no info on who’s behind it.
- Markoff 7mo agoWhat's wrong with LibreOffice? What benefits this has?
- skc 7mo agoAs long as they keep using Macs, iPhones and Apple watches. That'll show those pesky Americans.
- port11 7mo agoKudos for bringing more competition to the space, regardless of being a rebranding and etc. Minor gripe: cookie notice despite using only required first-party cookies. You’re from here, come on, go read the GDPR!
- welzel 7mo agoThe much more interesting projects from Europe are created by https://schwarz-digits.de/en https://schwarz-digits.de/en 3 Reasons: - a significant investment from the Schwarz Group - not just a marketing stunt, but a company with a long term vision to compete with big US tech - clearly targeted at B2B with strong ties into EU politics
- simonebrunozzi 7mo agoI have used Nextcloud. If feels about 30-35 years behind the current state of product quality for Google Docs or Microsoft Office. Good luck Europe (that's us).