Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux

for Windows 12, maybe?

I heavily doubt Germany could make that change. It's pretty analog country still on a lot of things and stuff like card payments aren't available everywhere. My bet would be Estonia. Here in Finland we're pretty digital on everything already but a crapload of offices (both public and private) are pretty heavily married to M365 (and microsoft in general) environment and workflows and have been for quite a while so even if I would absolutely like to see the change I don't see it happening any time soon.

And then there's the plain scale of things. You can find at least half decent windows helpdesk/admin staff everywhere but (at least in here) similar linux knowledge just isn't around. Plus then there's areas where linux just don't have replacements on windows environment. Basic desktop stuff is easy, but replacing AD forests with GPOs just doesn't have similarily easy replacement. There's of course workarounds and you can get similar end results but you'll need a skilled admin and pretty tightly controlled environment to do that.

They should have a distro that looks like Windows XP, I think they would win a lot of support for that.

Well the good thing is that it is a country that already is very digital and to some extend used to change.

If there is a country that should be able to make the change pretty straight forward icd expect it to be Denmark Germany or Norway

They even said that if it proves too difficult, they will return to Microsoft

And, unfortunately, I'm pretty sure they'll decide it's too difficult. They'd need capable linux-admins and helpdesk personnel, training for employees and someone to deal with the people who just won't even try to change. All of that costs money (and time, but that's the same thing), and quite a lot of it at first and benefits will come slowly over time.

It's actually more because of the ICC chief who lost access to his mail, as is described in the article. We cannot risk that happening to our officials.

We just want free stuff - communist Europe and all that

Can't possibly be the US constants threats against their sovereignty lately.

I guess they're just unfair to good and honest American cooperations

As far as I know, it's only the Danish ministry for digitalisation who wil *try* to drop Microsoft for a short period. This is not all of Denmark. They even said that if it proves too difficult, they will return to Microsoft

Hell yeah to more Linux!

Because they're smart and they want to establish free, open-source software as the norm.

Surprise they will be back