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Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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does anybody know why libreoffice and not only office? user experience and ms office compatibilty is way better for onlyoffice at leas from my perspective.
Might be the licensing type.
Might also just be what was/is known at the time to the decision makers. I’m in the IT world and didn’t know/learn about ONLYOFFICE until this past year.
Why prioritize MS compatibility?
because no soldier is an IT literate and 99.9% of those people are used to ms office + every document template (which are many) would be easier to work with.