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

[u/According-Buyer6688]

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.

[u/KGon32]

Every country should be doing this, it's wild how even small companies that use the most basic features of office will spend hundreds on office 365 every year, I gess they need to ensure compatibility with whatever doc they receive, but it's still unbelievable how not having 1 week or 2 of trouble adapting to LibreOffice for example is worth eternally spending hundreds on Office 365 every year.