The Austrian Armed Forces have been preparing for the switch to LibreOffice for a long time. Other LibreOffice users will also benefit from this.
  • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
    13·
    1 month ago

    Similarly in France the “Gendarmerie nationale”, a branch of the French Armed Forces that do the police has been using “GendBuntu” on all their desktop since 2008.

    It’s a version of Ubuntu developed specifically for them.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    1 month ago

    I suppose this is a move to become independent from USAmerican technology. Which makes sense, considering Trump’s unpredictability. But it’s still a good move anyways, independent of Trump, they should do it anyways.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Be interested to know how they migrated Excel accurately. That’s the killer app for Office and what makes migration difficult.

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
    4·
    1 month ago

    I just switched the other day after Microsoft emailed me reminding me that my subscription ends in a month.

    Then I cancelled right away and got $15 back.

    After they offered me “AI free office” for like $40 less which I didn’t even want in the first place.

    • Colonel Panic
      17·
      1 month ago

      Austria is a neutral country, its military mostly provides disaster relief and humanitarian aid

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      121·
      1 month ago

      And you think they don’t need to have internal documents or spreadsheets or presentations and use computers for those?

      (They definitely have at least presentations. They showed some of them to me around my 18th birthday when I had to show up at a military base to be examined for military fitness.)