Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same. Caroline Stage Olsen, the country’s Digitalisation Minister, plans to move half of the employees to LibreOffice over the summer, and if all goes as expected, the entire […]
A 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
Makes sense, you can’t just switch
Also, 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…