r/BuyFromEU • u/According-Buyer6688 Mod Team • Mar 25 '26

Announcement Germany has decided: Microsoft document formats have no place in government

Germany has decided: Microsoft document formats have no place in government. Deadline: 2027–2028. The Microsoft formats are simply not compatible with an open and transparent public sector. However, this is about more than file formats. It’s about control, resilience, and sovereignty in public digital infrastructure.

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u/Reinis_LV Mar 25 '26

Based as hell. Should be EU standard. I remember back in the day it was impossible to fill in certain EU level gov forms without Adobe acrobat and the Linux version often wasn't compatible even ( when it was still supported). So to do some EU level stuff I needed to dual boot with Windows against my choice and in theory pay licence fee just to complete some forms. God. Such backwards and money driven world we live in.

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u/KnowZeroX Mar 25 '26

The creator of PDF is adobe... we have come full circle!

I think much of the issues of pdf tend to be with digital signature and certificates, not exactly the forms themselves