2026-10-26 07:57 UTC
pilot phase with 38 ministry employees kicked off last year to trial Collabora’s suite with Office documents. However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora’s performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.
So it was a performance more or less, without any plan to actually switch.
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@femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-26 08:01
When elections took place could mean someone that won was pro America or Microsoft
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@Dojan@pawb.social 2026-10-26 08:06
It specifically says that performance wasn’t benchmarked. The root cause is incompatibility with Microsoft’s proprietary document format causing fuckiness for LibreOffice based Collabora. E.g. formatting issues. They could’ve tried the Russian alternative but I guess they’d prefer to gargle Microsoft’s fetid cock some more.