Critical support to Germany? 
Doesn't some German municipality do this every couple of years? Switch to linux until MS bribes them and they go back to Windows.
I saw someone talking about how it failed in Munich, so maybe...
Microsoft pushed for standardized use of their OOXML which was needlessly complicated and purposefully full of bugs when run on LibreOffice so instead of telling the world to stop adopting Microsoft's shitty doc formats, Munich took the much easier option and followed the herd.
or french! but maybe they actually stick with it? idk
Not Germany, just this one federal state. But any successful transition to libre software is always welcome. Europe has a very active free software community (more than the US in some aspects) so a lot of initiatives like these happen more often.
Kerala, a state in India, uses a flavor of Ubuntu for computer education in high school. Got introduced to Linux, Firefox, Libreoffice, Supertuxkart, GIMP and much more because of that.
Very cool!
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