Dieses europäische Militär hat Microsoft gerade für Open -Source Libreoffice abgeworfen – hier ist der Grund
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-european-military-just-ditched-microsoft-for-open-source-libreoffice-heres-why/
Von white1984
Dieses europäische Militär hat Microsoft gerade für Open -Source Libreoffice abgeworfen – hier ist der Grund
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-european-military-just-ditched-microsoft-for-open-source-libreoffice-heres-why/
Von white1984
15 Kommentare
„military“… In Austria we tend to joke about them being a defunded drinking society, that helps at best in times of floodings (like firefighters) with out-of-date helicopters. We don’t have a real military and we were really proud of that at times (for some reasons).
„At $33.75 per user per month, a Microsoft 365 E3 subscription“
Not that those 16000 need an E3 license, but whatever.
The honourable company Microsoft coerces you to put your data into their cloud onedrive, with some more or less dirtyish tricks. Do you know how much they care when they lose your data? YESSS, exactly!
Took the IT guy an entire day.
That’s going to require a lot of retraining, and a lot of headbanging, particularly when an associate shares an Excel spreadsheet. I find that Calc fails frequently when importing sheets with fairly simple formulas.
The UX across the entire suite is pretty horrible though. Even with Writer, it seems like you have to google how to do a lot of formatting that is intuitive in Word and Docs, and even then you’ll find little usability bugs and quirks that make it infuriating.
At this point switching to something else that Microsoft is just a question of political will. It’s not a technical challenge that some moderate amount of money can not solve. And data centers exist in the EU. They should not be the pretext for doing nothing. You can buy existing data centers if in a hurry. You can put capex and depreciate it over long periods like private companies do.
Your run of the mill « liberal country » has:
– 3 to 5 major phone service and internet providers
– 3 or more postal and courrier services for parcel delivery
– dozens of professional print workshops in any major city
– several storage depots and dozens of bank safes within a 1-hour drive
And yet somehow we would need to put 95% of our eggs in the same basket which is Microsoft. A glorified digital mashup of mail service + post its on a grid (outlook) + data storage + visual slide editor + buggy writing pad.
This is not high tech at all. It’s just features snatched by a hegemon that because of stiffled competition has had zero interest in making their products better and more reliable.
And it shows. When the last time you had a OneDrive issue? A PowerPoint freezing? A Word document with images skating on ice?
AT&T in not monopolistic in Europe. Bank of America is not monopolistic in Europe. Xerox is not monopolistic in Europe. Why would Microsoft be any different?
You know it’s a big deal when the name of the country is not mentioned once in the title lmao
Finally someone started thinking. This move should have happened 20 years ago.
I did that years ago
If countries want to be sovereign over their foreign policy, they need to ditch Microsoft. While this is not any defence of the IDF or their genocide in Gaza, Israel have just found that out.
Good luck dealing with compatibility issues when the rest of the world is using MS Office.
They need to ditch all Microsoft products, not just Office.
Windows 11 is an ultra ugly ransomware.
Last time I member using Libre Office. I based a mid sized project on it, then it failed as it could not calculate stuff and plot the graphs due to a bug. It was a so lame bullshit I could not believe it as if a kid threw a matchbox car in the machine.
In 2025 I hope it might be different due to AI and increased population of programmers.
Like in every 5 years I try linux but it so lame I stop it after some months. I hope it will be different this time.
I am laughing. Around 2005 to 2010, South Africa did not have sufficient funds to support their Air Force. A pilot must log a predefined number of flight hours per year to retain their proficiency. No money for fuel and the required maintenance resulted in most pilots leaving. Then there was the saga of a new submarine being damaged. The technician connected the submarine to the incorrect power source. This fried the electronic equipment. But… in order to achieve this magnificent feat, the charging plug was changed. There are mechanical interlocks, different types of electrical plugs for different voltages. These are meaningless if the plug is changed.
Didn’t know we had a European military.