Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

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#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

"Microsoft on Tuesday announced its biggest-ever Asia investment, amounting to $17.5 billion, in India over the next four years to advance the country’s cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure."

@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/r4Ea4T

#Microsoft #India #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech

Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

Others could learn a lot from this. 🤓

https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#opensource #germany #microsoft

Others could learn a lot from this. 🤓

https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#opensource #germany #microsoft

... executes it very well. It works for you, without trying to be clever or sophisticated. Also, it follows system conventions, which also helps you, the user.

I’m not sure whom the bottom interface helps. It’s a puzzle, an art object, but it doesn’t work for you. It’s not here to make your life easier.

Bottom image source: https://x.com/phantomofearth/status/1996660509027062148

#Windows #Affordance #Contrast #Run #Dialog #Microsoft 3/3

... executes it very well. It works for you, without trying to be clever or sophisticated. Also, it follows system conventions, which also helps you, the user.

I’m not sure whom the bottom interface helps. It’s a puzzle, an art object, but it doesn’t work for you. It’s not here to make your life easier.

Bottom image source: https://x.com/phantomofearth/status/1996660509027062148

#Windows #Affordance #Contrast #Run #Dialog #Microsoft 3/3

Awesome, Microsoft Teams appears to have shit the bed.

Cant send or receive messages in the browser or desktop client.

#microsoft #msteams #teams