Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9

The Euro-Office text editor in action. NextCloud

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Euro-Office provides a Europe-based alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs.

Digital sovereignty is powering the demand for the open-source Euro-Office.

The interface and document formats will be familiar to any Microsoft 365 user.

Countries outside of the US are sick and tired of paying for what they see as untrustworthy American-dominated software-as-a-service (SaaS). As a result, many countries and companies -- especially in Europe -- are investing in digital sovereignty initiatives. The latest SaaS to address this need is Euro-Office.

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Euro-Office's 1.0 release, available June 9 for anyone to download from the project's public GitHub repositories, will come with ready‑to‑use web editors for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that support real‑time collaboration.

The suite is designed to help public authorities, education systems, and regulated industries move away from US‑based productivity clouds while retaining a familiar, Microsoft Office-style workflow for end users.

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