Microsoft still makes the most popular desktop OS and Office suite in the world, but people — and even governments — are ...

Several European governments and organizations have decided to drop Microsoft products like Office or Windows in favor of open-source equivalents. Here's why.

Microsoft Office is used in offices at the same time in schools and also for personal use worldwide. But now, some countries ...

German state of Schleswig-Holstein also turns its back on Microsoft as Europeans fear being ‘blackmailed’ by Big Tech ...

With the Document Foundation, another group from the world of free software has joined the “End of 10” campaign launched by ...

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is undertaking a historic shift in public-sector IT, replacing Microsoft products with ...

The LibreOffice project is preparing to cut some Windows support – and encourages users to switch to Linux.

Microsoft Office is used in homes, workplaces, and schools worldwide. However, some European nations are increasingly beginning to outlaw it ...

Plans to go open-source were drawn up by Schleswig-Holstein as far back as 2017. In 2021, the state found another incentive ...

Microsoft Office is being banned from government systems in some European countries, including Germany, to maintain data ...

The main reason behind this is that the German government wants to keep its data safe and stored inside the country.

The radical change is being hailed as a major step toward "digital sovereignty" and a signal of growing European resistance ...