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Lame as fuck
Macroslop decide to build another big center in Kopenhagen?
A pilot phase with 38 ministry employees kicked off last year to trial Collabora’s suite with Office documents. However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora’s performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.
Now I have to check who won the elections…
Lol, as expected, the right-wingers and liberal had a wave and those corrupt pricks probably cancelled it. What a surprise.
So they discovered they had locked themselves in harder than expected, and concluded they should stay locked in. That’s… one strategy you choose, I guess.
Exactly my thought. Every journey begins with the first step. If i give up on the first step, i just stay where i am. Good for MS though, their strategy to make transition to other formats as diffcult as possible is a success.
“it wasn’t perfect on the first try so we’re going to just give up” idiocy.
Microsoft needs to be dismantled.
you have no idea how government works. Change one setting in email and the whole government grinds to a halt. Hundreds have to take time off for emotional trauma and long term disability with PTSD.
Change an entire software ecosystem? Good luck.
A pilot phase with 38 ministry employees kicked off last year to trial Collabora’s suite with Office documents. However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora’s performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.
Huh. Politically/Lobby motivated? I hope there’ll be a follow-up.
It doesn’t sound like the formatting issues mentioned were the reason they abandoned this; that bit reads like filler to me because the actual news is so unsatisfying. Im/Exporting from/to MS formats not working 100% is also nothing new. And other institutions succesfully made the switch, so this is clearly workable.
The flow of bribe money and favors not continuing might be a problem for some, but I would not categorise it as a “technical” one.
Typical digital Denmark L.
While no evaluations were conducted for this pilot, there were reports late last year that the officials were running into formatting issues such as blank pages when opening Office documents in Collabora and vice versa.
MS Office document importers need to have similar backing as Valve did with Proton. Hopefully Euro Office gets it.
😬 exactly what’s wrong with the world.
