Lyon is ditching Microsoft software for Linux, OnlyOffice, and PostgreSQL, joining Denmark and Germany in a push for open-source tools.

Denmark is moving one of its government ministries from Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 to the open-source LibreOffice. It ...

France's third-largest city, Lyon, is the latest European city to have ditched Microsoft Office in favor of open-source ...

Denmark's Agency for Digital Government has announced plans to phase out Microsoft software across its offices in favour of open source alternatives, joining a growing European movement ...

Several European governments and organizations have decided to drop Microsoft products like Office or Windows in favor of open-source equivalents. Here's why.

Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Government is phasing out its use of Microsoft Office… to switch to open source alternatives like LibreOffice instead. Why? Because relying too heavily on a US tech giant ...

Denmark’s initiative is not without precedent. More than a decade ago, Germany, most notably the city of Munich, attempted to replace Microsoft products with Linux and LibreOffice.

Denmark's Ministry of Digitalisation has announced its decision to transition from Microsoft Office 365 to the open-source ...

Update 6/22/25: Politiken has amended its original story to report that the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is only phasing out Microsoft Office—Windows is here to stay, for the time being.

Organizations migrating away from end-of-life Microsoft ecosystems must consider the impact of macro policies. And those ...