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Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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This is just right. Massive amounts of corporations have a complete dependency on Microsoft Office. In a way that cannot be substituted by Libreoffice or similar.
Change need to happen. But there need to be a viable alternative before it.
Well, several administrations in Spain already are using LibreOffice, which is a pretty good alternative to the MS Office, it is even compatible with way more document formats than the MS Office. That means, that don't exist an real dependency because tecnical reasons, but maybe because burocratic ones. Using alternatives of Windows is more complicated, but there isn't any problems with general apps for Windows, except for some specific corporation ones, Windows catalogue of software is the biggest one of any other OS.