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I hope they keep it this time, I'm tired of seeing these, and then "oh, MS gave us a great deal soooo"
I think they were always on a smaller scale. With this one, I'm somewhat hopeful that it'll stick, and be a long term effort.
It's the whole country this time, and Microsoft's position has changed a lot. 👍
What if MS ends up providing Linux "support" then?
They already have WSL
In case of ODF, well from what I remember, MS office could export to it
You probably mean .odt, but yes. It's an open format. Which is the whole point.
Yeah, odt.
It's laughable how I manage to keep on mistaking it after multiple years of using it.
My point with odt was that MS probably won't feel much of an urgency by it as long as they can keep lobbying for MS Office to be used with whatever formats the govts want.
And considering how LibreOffice executables on Windows tend to be pretty slow, they might manage to fool enough non-tech people. (who don't realise that it actually works pretty well on Linux)
LiMux
MS didn't just give Munich a better deal, they actively went out of their way to sabotage this perfectly feasable & already working project in several ways.
And iirc similar things happened in other places in Germany / EU.