Post #926024

2026-04-02 07:58 UTC

This looks like the EU is finally offering an alternative suite of office tools to replace US corporate offerings from Google and Microsoft. https://office.eu/

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@kittylyst@mastodon.social 2026-04-02 08:09

@ReggieHere My understanding is that it's a non-friendly fork of a Russian suite that still uses OOXML as its internal format - so still far too linked to the oligarchs.

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@Nicovel0@mastodon.social 2026-04-02 08:22

@ReggieHere while I am really happy to see this, let’s note that the name of this service is a little misleading: it is run by a NL based company, not the European Parliament or commission. It does seems to do what it says on the tin, which is to provide an EU/EFTA based cloud office suite.

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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 2026-04-02 08:54

@ReggieHere Replaced with what, is the question though. The first thought was to fork OnlyOffice, which is a RUSSIAN product of all things. It’s almost as if it’s impossible to adapt the most common of office package, and contribute to it’s development? That would be the logical thing to do, but no, we must have something else..

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@clive@saturation.social 2026-04-04 05:03

@ReggieHere Totally fascinating, I had no idea this existed — thank you for pointing it out

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