{
  "id": 16742175,
  "title": "Denmark Gives Up On Replacing Microsoft Office With Collabora",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/denmark-gives-up-on-replacing-microsoft-office-with-collabora",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-27T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
    "slug": "slashdot",
    "url": "https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/10/26/2222246/denmark-gives-up-on-replacing-microsoft-office-with-collabora"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Denmark's Ministry of Digitization ended a six-month pilot project to replace Microsoft Office with the open-source Collabora suite, according to Danish publication Computerworld. The pilot, launched in 2025, involved 38 employees who would have used Collabora's office tools instead of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The initiative was started by former Digitization Minister Caroline Stage, aiming to lessen Denmark's reliance on American technology. However, the project reportedly concluded before the Danish government called for early elections in February 2026, with some employees reporting issues with formatting, blank pages, and tracking changes. Despite the project's early termination, Professor Mikkel Flyberbom of the Copenhagen Business School laments that the experiment has not undergone proper evaluation and calls for the ministry to share its findings with other public sector entities.",
  "summary": "Denmark's Ministry of Digitization reportedly abandoned a pilot to replace Microsoft Office with the open-source Collabora suite less than six months after it began. Tom's Hardware reports: According to Danish publication Computerworld, the pilot project was launched in 2025 and involved 38 employees, all of whom would start using the British open-source Collabora office suite instead of Word,…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}