Post #2587161
2022-11-18 22:59 UTC
Replies (16)
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@glaber@mastodon.green 2022-11-18 23:00
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social hope they get #LibreOffice and #OpenDocument!
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@73rdnemesio@social.bhsnw.com 2022-11-18 23:04
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social This is when OpenOffice or Collabora could fill a need. But would require the school system to create the host.
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@nicemicro@fosstodon.org 2022-11-19 00:32
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social yeah, but this could easily apply to the installed MS Office suite, too... Last I checked (and I did, because at my work I use MS Office), it very much insists to log into an on-line account too. And being proprietary 🗑️ , you can never be sure, what it actually uses its online capabilities for...
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@jkuester@social.kuester7.com 2022-11-19 02:00
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social paging @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz and @collabora@floss.social 😆
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@captain_caveman@uiuxdev.social 2022-11-19 02:35
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social I would love to see people in the US more open to other alternatives. My kids were forced to use Google docs in school. Even after graduation they still use it even though there are better and free alternatives to it.
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@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2022-11-19 03:47
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social but this does open the door for locally hosted (by French-owned companies not subject to the US Cloud and Patriot acts!) or NC + OnlyOffice (or, if it catches up, CollaboraOffice)... Would love to see it. Would be great if it happened in NZ, too.
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@goodgoogleymoogely@freeradical.zone 2022-11-19 06:45
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social the ironic situation is I can imagine Chinese companies meeting the standard requirements and replacing Google documents and Microsoft word. But there's also a good chance that open source standards will generally service as adequate replacements. This is exciting news. Although I can imagine the government requiring services and serves to be based in the country so they will be permitted more ready access to user information.
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@Polychrome@poly.cybre.city 2022-11-19 12:31
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social I'm pleasantly surprised Microsoft hasn't killed offline Office yet.
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@LaBarovier@mastodon.social 2022-11-19 12:48
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social French public institutions have huge qualms towards MS and Google indeed. It can reach levels of paranoia in research institutions for these very reasons. They fear American using intelligence against them.
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@alvanrahimli@noc.social 2022-11-19 15:37
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social this is expected, as whole schools already rely on this and they wont change any time soon, telling excuses like adaptation will take time etc. In these kinda establishments, something has to be forced by government or some entity, or they wont change anything, unfortunately.
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@flexsite@flexsite.masto.host 2022-11-19 17:38
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social This is interesting; because I work for a US Tech Company using 365 on UK Government Contracts. I have had to had my data (Mailbox etc) geolocated to a UK Datacentre & that seems to be enough security wise even though there is the Patriot act that would allow the US government access?
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@xerz@fedi.xerz.one 2022-11-19 18:40
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social don’t worry about it, these days people only use web stuff anyway
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@emeliadobegay@mastodon.lol 2022-11-19 23:53
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social Oh, that's... less amazing. My school uses Microsoft services for everything, and I gotta say, it is not fun. Not only are the services barely functional, but the lack of privacy and security involved is really bad. I would much prefer if we could use open-source software, perhaps even stuff that we could self-host, so that we don't have Microsoft's prying eyes on all of our stuff.
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@KarlS08@mastodon.nu 2022-11-20 08:54
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social I am waiting for my government to do the same, tired of using Microsoft products forced down my throat, sad it doesn't affect installed msoffice. Every school laptop I got I installed Linux on no matter if I was allowed or not. Use the office 365 online as I'm forced to.
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@mfeilner@mastodon.cloud 2022-11-21 09:57
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social In a very soontocome future there's no on-premise Office or similar anymore, that's MS strategy. And if you look at Win11, the "telemetry" is being pushed further, not into more compliance with european law.
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@clacke@libranet.de 2022-11-21 11:28
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social All MS will be cloud before long.