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801 Denmark Is Dumping Microsoft Office and Windows For LibreOffice and Linux

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/12/2025 07:30 EDT

Denmark Is Dumping Microsoft Office and Windows For LibreOffice and Linux

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Denmark's Minister of Digitalization, Caroline Stage, has announced that the Danish government will start moving away from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. Why? It's not because open-source is better, although I would argue that it is, but because Denmark wants to claim "digital sovereignty." In the States, you probably haven't heard that phrase, but in the European Union, digital sovereignty is a big deal and getting bigger.

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