Wow!

Well it certainly didn't make sense to run your military infra on US proprietary software.

Similarly in France the "Gendarmerie nationale", a branch of the French Armed Forces that do the police has been using "GendBuntu" on all their desktop since 2008.

It's a version of Ubuntu developed specifically for them.

I suppose this is a move to become independent from USAmerican technology. Which makes sense, considering Trump's unpredictability. But it's still a good move anyways, independent of Trump, they should do it anyways.

Be interested to know how they migrated Excel accurately. That's the killer app for Office and what makes migration difficult.

I just switched the other day after Microsoft emailed me reminding me that my subscription ends in a month.

Then I cancelled right away and got $15 back.

After they offered me "AI free office" for like $40 less which I didn't even want in the first place.

Less than two months ago I had a bunch of ... almost certainly US or UK folks acting like I was completely insane or didn't understand the nuances of what switching out of the MSFT ecosystem, how hard that would be for large orgs.

... And here we are, a bit later, more and more of Europe is correctly realizing that it is not that hard, actually.

EDIT: For the record, I am former MSFT employee, who also went to work for other places and moved as much of one of those place's business software over to open source stuff as possible... because we dealt with PII for highly vulnerable indiviudals, and MSFT is very obviously the US Gov's bitch/willing collaborator, when it comes to data security.

Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.