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Austria's military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice

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96 points CharlesW | 1 comments | 27 Sep 25 23:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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billy99k ◴[28 Sep 25 00:55 UTC] No.45400808[source]▶
It's not because it's better. If you just need a basic excel/doc alternative, maybe.

As soon as you need some more complex excel calculations, LibreOffice falls flat.

Good luck getting formatting to look correct in a .doc file opened by Microsoft Office 99% of the time.

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1. nairboon ◴[28 Sep 25 09:15 UTC] No.45402923[source]▶
The advantage of migrating the whole organization is that it's no longer your problem if a .doc file looks slightly different for someone outside your organization. As long as it works internally.

As soon as you cross different organization IT systems, documents don't look the same anyways: e.g. local office vs Microsoft 365 online.