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Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice

Governments around the world, especially European ones, are increasingly reacting to the threat of American-based services pulling the rug from under them. We have already seen many instances of this, like Denmark moving away from Microsoft or Germany doing the same. This is a growing pattern that shows Big Tech isn't welcome in sensitive Government installations around Europe anymore, though this does vary from region to region (lobbying is a factor here). The Austrian Armed Forces (Bundeshee

This European military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice - here's why

GoodLifeStudio/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Austria's military has switched from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. The move was all about digital sovereignty, not cost savings. Other governments are moving away from Microsoft to protect their citizens' privacy. Austria's military has completed a major IT overhaul, replacing Microsoft Office with the open-source LibreOffice suite across all its desktop systems. The chang

Austria military ditches Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice - here's why

GoodLifeStudio/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Austria's military has switched from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. The move was all about digital sovereignty, not cost savings. Other governments are moving away from Microsoft to protect their citizens' privacy. Austria's military has completed a major IT overhaul, replacing Microsoft Office with the open-source LibreOffice suite across all its desktop systems. The chang

Man Who Skydived From Space Dies During New Stunt

Image by Buda Mendes/Getty Images for Laureus / Futurism Developments Nearly 13 years after skydiving from the edge of space, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner has died during a tragic accident. As the New York Post reports, Baumgartner was 56 when he took on what became his last stunt: flying a motorized paraglider near the town of Porto Sant Elpidio, a beachside resort off Italy's Adriatic coast. According to the NYP's translation of the Italian newspaper Il Resto del Carlino, the extreme