• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    As long as they use only software that works cross platform, they will have very low switching costs if they do eventually decide to move to linux.

    • cabbage@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      Switching away from MS Office dependency before switching away from Windows indeed makes sense.

    • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 days ago

      “Lower” switching costs. But it’s still going to be a Thing to get switched to Linux across the government. I hope they are going to continue that as phase 2.

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        2 days ago

        I bet there’s like 500 forms and spreadsheets that simply do not function in Libre Office. And remaking them all will take forever because of the approval processes