Solved Euro-Office 1.0 arrives to open-source infighting: 'Compatibility is not sovereignty'

Borg 386 · 2026-06-11T15:37:39-0400

The first stable release of Euro-Office, an open-source office suite alternative, is out now.

Positioned as a cornerstone of EU digital sovereignty, it's not ready for prime time.

Opposition from other open-source parties isn't helping.

Euro-Office 1.0 arrives to open-source infighting: 'Compatibility is not sovereignty'

The new cloud-based, open-source alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace is here, as LibreOffice backers lambast its reliance on Microsoft document formats.

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cereberus · 2026-06-11T16:04:36-0400

Doomed to failure from day 1 calling it Euro Office. It is so obviously a political stunt. There are already well know MS Office alternatives but they only have niche usage.

Why would any firm that wants to engage in international business ditch MS Office?

One might complain about MS Office but it has stood the test of time with very few catastrophic (if any) bugs. For businesses, that distinction matters.

XxXxX · 2026-06-12T00:43:04-0400

all the systems in this house use LibreOffice but all the saved formats are in MS Office formats
mainly the older formats 1997/2003 .doc .ppt as we have found they have much better compatibility with MS Office

mind you we dont do worldwide business nor are we national govts, so our little problems are not so important.
best of luck Steve ..

cereberus · 2026-06-12T04:51:05-0400

XxXxX said:
all the systems in this house use LibreOffice but all the saved formats are in MS Office formats
mainly the older formats 1997/2003 .doc .ppt as we have found they have much better compatibility with MS Office

mind you we dont do worldwide business nor are we national govts, so our little problems are not so important.
best of luck Steve ..

And that basically concurs with my point. MS Office was always a business tool and back in the day, non business consumers often used simpler tools as they did not need such complexity.

Over time a number of Office clones developed and satisfied the needs of smaller domestic consumers - Libre Office being the prime example nowadays.

So I cannot see who the Euro Office targets. Major business users will remain with MS Office. Domestic users who wish to save money will stick with Libre Office or similar.

This is just political posturing with EU trying to break MS dominance. They will only achieve that if they actually make MS Office illegal or impose excessive tariffs. Think of the chaos if they tried to switchover every public sector organisation.

One only has to remember the spectaculary failed attempt by a German state to switch over to Linux from Windows and using various non Windows apps (MS Office being renoved as main app). The state admin fell apart in weeks, and they had to reverse the decision.

Tools introduced by politicians with a different agenda are a joke.

Borg 386 · 2026-06-12T08:07:27-0400

cereberus said:
And that basically concurs with my point. MS Office was always a business tool and back in the day, non business consumers often used simpler tools as they did not need such complexity.

Over time a number of Office clones developed and satisfied the needs of smaller domestic consumers - Libre Office being the prime example nowadays.

So I cannot see who the Euro Office targets. Major business users will remain with MS Office. Domestic users who wish to save money will stick with Libre Office or similar.

This is just political posturing with EU trying to break MS dominance. They will only achieve that if they actually make MS Office illegal or impose excessive tariffs. Think of the chaos if they tried to switchover every public sector organisation.

One only has to remember the spectaculary failed attempt by a German state to switch over to Linux from Windows and using various non Windows apps (MS Office being renoved as main app). The state admin fell apart in weeks, and they had to reverse the decision.

Tools introduced by politicians with a different agenda are a joke.

Interesting about Germany using Linux. I read a while back that some Euro countries were going to move away from Windows in favor of Linux. I was wondering how/if that would work out. Apparently not so well.

I wonder if it worked out for other countries trying it.

Marie SWE · 2026-06-12T10:13:37-0400

cereberus said:
Why would any firm that wants to engage in international business ditch MS Office?

Because of USA Cloud act.. That is why.

SlicEnDicE · 2026-06-12T10:58:56-0400

@cereberus It has nothing to do with saving money nor cutting of MS Office. It has everything to do with having an alternative that the EU controls, in case US or MS does something stupid. The world is starting to learn that reliance on one product/country is a HUGE mistake. Same applies for OSes and anything for that matter, that causes reliaance on one single vendor.

NormanF · 2026-06-12T19:07:12-0400

A stable desktop version will arrive later this summer.

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