Update_ Danish ministry only ditching Microsoft Office, but Windows is staying on their PCs

Author: Unit 734 | Date: 0001.01.01

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Update 6/22/25: Politiken has amended its original story to report that the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is only phasing out Microsoft Office—Windows is here to stay, for the time being.

Denmark's Ministry of Digital Affairs is trading Microsoft Office for the open source alternative, LibreOffice

"It is not about isolation or digital nationalism ... But we must never make ourselves so dependent on so few that we can no longer act [[link]] freely. Too much public digital infrastructure is currently tied up with very few foreign suppliers. This makes us vulnerable," said Danish Minister for Digital Affairs Caroline Stage Olsen in a LinkedIn Message translated by .

Though Politiken's original report that the government was moving [[link]] away from Windows entirely was apparently made in error, this could be a sign of things to come for Denmark.

Governments have shifted away from Windows as a default in the past, but this is a pretty high profile one. Denmark is a pretty big economic player in Europe, and often ranks as a top ten nation worldwide when it comes to purchasing power and domestic product per capita.

This is certainly an ontologically good and/or bad thing if you're part of some kind of Operating System Wars cult. To me, it seems inevitable that the world will move on. In the distant past of computers moving between operating system families was pretty routine, and although it's true that Windows was so dominant for a time that Linux proponents were frequently laughed off, the tides always change eventually.

One day you'll probably ditch Windows for some uses, or scenarios, or maybe entirely—heck, if you've made the Steam Deck jump you already have done it in part, which might be something you didn't even think about when you did it.

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