Italy's Ministry of Defense to Drop Microsoft Office in Favor of LibreOffice

Italo Vignoli reports that the Italian Ministry of Defense is about to migrate to the LibreOffice open-source software for productivity and adopt the Open Document Format (ODF).

The initiative will allow the Italian Ministry of Defense to be independent from proprietary software applications, which are aimed at individual productivity and adopt the open source document format standards like Open Document Format (ODF), which is used by default in the LibreOffice office suite. The project follows similar experiences already made by governments of other European countries, including United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, and Holland.

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